Quotes About Texas

The Academy's most famous dropout was raised in Macedonia, the Texas of ancient Greece.

If the Devil created Texas like some folks say he did, this is where he rested on the seventh day.

Texas "the ark of safety to swindlers, gamblers, robbers and rogues

Many tort lawyers are important Democratic donors. Tort "reform"—as conservatives call it—cuts off this source of money. All of a sudden three-quarters of the money going to the Texas Democratic Party is not there.

Moreover, charter schools have no accountability to local school districts or the public. A consequence in Texas, for example, is that charter schools tend to debunk evolution and science and teach creationism

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

Here in Central Texas, you drive west, you get the desert; you drive east, you get the woods; you've got water, you've got urban environments, you've got country. So you can hit a lot of notes.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

I'm from Texas and grew up in the South. Very old-school and traditional. Married, had a kid. Suit and tie. The guy next door.

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

The Texas Republic, whose constitution expressed an overheated enthusiasm for America's peculiar institution, had been created in 1836 in part as a way for slave-owners to keep their human property by effectively seceding from Mexico where slavery was illegal. These are well-known facts, except possibly in Texas,

Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers.

Remember the Alamo

Today Kingsville [,Texas], which in 1913 became the seat of Kleberg County, has a population of about 25,000 and encompasses approximately 15,548 acres, appropriated from Spanish and Mexican land grants.

Texas. A ring of boys drew closer around the younger one they had been pushing and shoving.

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS" You may talk about your Dearest May, And sing of Rosa Lee, But the Yellow Rose of Texas Beats the belles of Tennessee. TRADITIONAL

Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a real Texas Woman. The single truly essential ingredient that every real Texas Woman must possess is this: she must know that she is exactly as special as the state she comes from.

Again and again, readers told me about the altered version of history they'd been taught during their required two years of state history. It was news to many of these extremely well-educated, progressive readers that Texas had fought not one, but two wars for the right to own slaves.

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.