Quotes About Texas

To the hardworking men and women of Texas' 13th Congressional District, I cannot thank you enough for trusting me to be your voice in Washington.

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

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.

Are you kin to the Gallaghers or the Brennans? Jill asked. Hell, no! If I was, I'd shoot myself in the head with this gun.

Dating and getting to really know a woman is a different game. Kind of like the difference in Monopoly and Texas Hold 'Em.

Her books include historical, contemporary, cowboy, and

There was nothing prettier in the whole world than a Texas sunset. Especially one where the earth looked flat, where the dirt and sky met each other and the sun simply fell off the side of the world. Oranges competed with yellows and pinks to put on a show more brilliant than a fresh new box of crayons.

In their years in Sugar Run, Texas, Tootsie and Smokey Colbert had had so many neighbors that they'd lost count. One by one, families in the four other houses on their block had moved in and moved away. Now, all were sitting empty.

Even at the beginning of fall—which is only a date on the calendar in Texas;

Because Texas is the nation's largest purchaser of textbooks, publishers have historically written to the Texas standards.)

Also in Texas, Allen Beck, the founder of Advantage Academy, a four-campus charter school funded by taxpayers, has said he established the schools in order to bring "the Bible, prayer, and patriotism back into the public school system.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Further testimony and legal documents reflected an impressive list of former business partners, including Howard Hughes cohort Robert Maheu and Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.

Not that Strider was intoxicated. He was the sober one. He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something. At

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke.

Of course, in Texas the history of Texas took up more space in the textbook than the entirety of the rest of Western Civilization combined.

When visitors came to the fine state of Texas, they expected a dry, rolling plain studded with longhorn cattle, oil derricks, and an occasional cowboy in a huge hat. According to them, that plain had only one type of weather: scorching. That wasn't true at all. In fact, we had two types, drought and flood.