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  • Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' -- George W. Bush
  • The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. -- Malcolm McDowell
  • Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. -- Sam Houston
  • A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. -- John Steinbeck
  • Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. -- Tom Landry
  • Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. -- John Steinbeck
  • If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. -- Philip Sheridan
  • Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! -- Sam Houston
  • Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. -- Sam Houston
  • I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big -- Phil Gramm
  • I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. -- Ann Richards
  • They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee. -- Tex Ritter
  • Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. -- John Steinbeck
  • I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. -- Molly Ivins
  • Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican. -- Sam Houston
  • I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again. -- Bum Phillips
  • In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. -- Sam Houston
  • All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. -- Sam Houston
  • If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus -- Lee Trevino
  • I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. -- Willie Nelson
  • You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas. -- Davy Crockett
  • If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? -- John Gunther
  • Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. -- Molly Ivins
  • I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. -- Carroll Shelby
  • I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. -- Erin Wasson
  • Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. -- John Steinbeck
  • A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans. -- Bill W. Clayton
  • 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. -- Molly Ivins
  • The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world. -- Idina Menzel
  • I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle. -- Davy Crockett
  • Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst. -- Pauline Kael
  • I love working in Texas anywhere. -- Robert Duvall
  • I'm from Texas, we fry everything. -- Selena
  • Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams -- Larry McMurtry
  • I grew up in Plano, Texas. -- Hunter Parrish
  • I lived in Texas for 10 years. -- John Hawkes
  • The Republic of Texas is no more. -- Anson Jones
  • I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. -- Johnny Manziel
  • Texas has a lot of electrical votes. -- Yogi Berra
  • They're really competitive at drama in Texas. -- Lynn Collins
  • Im not a redneck, Im from Texas. -- Chris Kyle
  • Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts. -- Katie Couric
  • I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. -- Molly Ivins
  • Texas is killing people in the 73rd trimester. -- Christopher Titus
  • George is the best little dishwasher in Texas. -- Barbara Bush
  • I play American and World music, Texas style. -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
  • Texas is as odd as it is vast. -- Henry Rollins
  • I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas. -- Kinky Friedman
  • Your Texas is no different than my Texas. -- Pat Mora
  • The best of Texas is yet to come. -- Wendy Davis
  • Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. -- Jessica Savitch
  • I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one -- Bill Moyers
  • I don't care if I never see Texas again. -- Rafer Johnson
  • In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' -- Ross Perot
  • [My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five. -- Jerry Hall
  • I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government. -- Molly Ivins
  • What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery. -- Kinky Friedman
  • We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. -- Calamity Jane
  • English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. -- Michael Caine
  • Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. -- Henry Rollins
  • Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas. -- Dan Savage
  • You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas. -- Davy Crockett
  • I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state. -- Drew Brees
  • The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning -- Wendy Davis
  • I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state -- Drew Brees
  • If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back. -- Ron White
  • Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf. -- Lloyd Bentsen
  • I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. -- Jackson Rathbone
  • You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas -- Davy Crockett
  • That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways. -- Lyle Lovett
  • Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. -- Billy Bush
  • Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big. -- Bobby Lee
  • I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. -- Selena Gomez
  • Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet... -- Bob Corritore
  • Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind. -- John Steinbeck
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  • The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' -- Kinky Friedman
  • Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class. -- James A. Michener
  • Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. -- Ed Gillespie
  • When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king. -- Waylon Jennings
  • In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. -- Kelly Clarkson
  • Iâ??m from Texasâ?¦the bigger the hair, the closer to God! -- Lilly Ghalichi
  • In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip. -- Cora Carmack
  • Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier. -- Edna Ferber
  • I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M. --
  • The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott, -- Wendy Davis
  • We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. -- Andrew Jackson
  • I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. -- Gary Busey
  • Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood. -- Caleb Landry Jones
  • Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos. -- Steven Hall
  • Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University. -- John Sharp
  • In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician. -- Minka Kelly
  • I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts. -- Rick Riordan
  • In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. -- Steve Stockman
  • We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected. -- Rick Riordan
  • Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. -- Bum Phillips
  • I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. -- Ronnie Dunn
  • And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined. -- Rick Perry
  • I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. -- Jensen Ackles
  • I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. -- Jim Evans
  • Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! -- Maxcy Gregg
  • I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday. -- Ted Cruz
  • I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. -- Berkeley Breathed
  • I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. -- Sam Houston
  • The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. -- Roger Clemens
  • You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. -- George Carlin
  • In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. -- Piper Perabo
  • By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. -- Jacqueline Kelly
  • Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state. -- Wendy Davis
  • I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. -- Calvin Trillin
  • I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money. -- Jim Parsons
  • In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON. -- Ted Cruz
  • I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space. -- Kinky Friedman
  • here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. -- Edna Ferber
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