Quotes About Texan

My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent.

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

The only end in sight was Yossarian's own, and he might have remained in the hospital until doomsday had it not been for that patriotic Texan with his infundibuliform jowls and his lumpy, rumpleheaded, indestructible smile cracked forever across the front of his face like the brim of a black ten-gallon hat.

The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night, ' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Rafe told everyone he was from Texas. That was bull. I'd dated a summer guy from Texas, and Rafe's drawl was all wrong. His last name suggested he was Latino, and he kind of looked it, but his high cheekbones and amber eyes said Native to me. He was a little taller than Daniel, lean, with black hair that hung just past the collar of his leather jacket. Worn blue jeans and low motorcycle boots completed the image: American Teen Rebel.

We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.

I am a proud, not Texan, but a citizen of Dallas.

TEXAN: "Where are you from?" HARVARD STUDENT: "I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions." TEXAN: "OK, where are you from, jackass?" —Variation on an old joke

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

In Texas, the lies wore cowboy boots.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

A joke by fellow Texan and humorist Jack Handey sprang to mind: When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did—in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.