Quotes About Texas

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at Columbia precisely because most Columbia professors have never seen combat. Daily life on the Columbia Campus involves no bloodshed, no sacrifice, and no possibility of recognition. Indeed, for most college students daily life is less like Homer's ILIAD and more like THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry. But who wants to read a book set in Texas?

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.