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Quotes About Texas

I love working in Texas anywhere.
~ Robert Duvall
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
~ Marty Robbins
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
~ Joni Mitchell
Ernest Cline lives in Austin, Texas, where he devotes a large portion of his time to geeking out. This is his first novel.
~ Ernest Cline
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
~ Eva Longoria
My uncle out in Texas Can't even write his name He signs his checks with X's But they cash 'em just the same
~ berlin irving iii
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
~ Laura Bush
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
~ Parker Posey
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
I wrestled a lot in Texas at Anarchy Championship Wrestling.
~ Daffney
After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys. It was me and a couple other dudes would write the songs.
~ Amanda Shires
She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
~ Lee Child
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
~ Dan Rather
It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.
~ Maren Morris
Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it's so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.
~ Maren Morris
I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
~ Jack Antonoff
My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.
~ Nico Santos
When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and I asked about the tower shooting. I was told, 'We're really not supposed to talk about that.' That was the official stance from the university.
~ Keith Maitland
I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.
~ George Jones
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
~ G. W. Bailey
I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
~ Johnny Gimble
I grew up in the Dallas Metroplex. But I spent a lot of time in Waco and then in small towns down there with my grandma and then in Killeen and in Riesel.
~ Jonathan Majors
I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
~ Fran Lebowitz