Quotes About Texan

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

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

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

For creating the Texan accent, I would listen to Sissy Spacek and watch her in 'Badlands.' I downloaded the audio of that whole film and listened to that.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

An introvert with a Texan's affability, I was well intentioned but weak on follow-through; not without reason did an old friend refer to me as the gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

She had a glint in her eye that didn't quite match her cordial remark, and she smiled as if she'd beaten me at Ping-Pong. I thought for a second what a smart Texan might say to such a clear goad. It didn't take long to hit on just the right thing. I said, Bless your heart, ma'am. Thank you.

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Texan. It is because he has renounced God. He is that way because he was born that way, or because the Devil has claimed him for one of his own, or because the only woman he ever loved was untrue to him.

How're you doin Ed Tom. I aint braggin.

Seinfeld was typically American in that show. He was a pretty funny guy, but he had no sense of style. Tacky like a Texan tux. Tasteless dressing and tasteful jokes. That's Seinfeld for me. I would have preferred it the other way around.

The language of Homer lay still further off. Imagine a twenty-first-century Texan reading Chaucer.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

Yeah, we taught him a lesson," the Texan said, his voice fading in and out with the wind. "These goddamn Indians got to learn whose property this is!

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.