Quotes About Independence

Texans will not be pushed around.

Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.

The Republic of Texas is no more.

Texas is a pretty free state.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

I don't know if there's something in the water in Texas, but there's a lot of us really ballsy women that have something to say.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

Texas kind of operates as if we're our own little country.

Texans deserve a senator who represents our values, strength, courage, independence - putting Texas first.

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.

I personally can tell you that all my girlfriends - and many women I've spoken to - have this fear of being perceived as desperate or forward when they want to approach a man. It was always, 'He must text you first' - but why?

When we were kids, every time you left the house with your friends you had it in the back of your head that you could go on a crazy adventure just like the characters in those movies we loved. That's hard to do if you've got your parents constantly texting you.

I was focused on my career, so my father, brothers and sister went to places like Korea, Thailand, Malaysia.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.