Texan Quotes

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  • They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

    Mother   Father   Texas  
  • Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

    Dream   Song   Morning  
    FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011
  • We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

    Edward Hoagland (1973). “Walking the Dead Diamond River”, Random House (NY)
  • I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

    Texas   Size   Texan  
    Ann Richards, Peter Knobler (1989). “Straight from the heart: my life in politics and other places”, Simon & Schuster
  • A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

    John Steinbeck (2012). “Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin
  • I thought of telling him that if it wasn't for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would've been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive.

    Fun   Cowboy   Mexican  
    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.18, Penguin
  • Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

    Peace   War   Boys  
  • Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

    Country   Texas   Cities  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin
  • Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

    War   Soldier   Alabama  
  • In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

    Reading   Holiday   Cat  
    Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin
  • Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

    Real   Cancer   Advice  
    "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.
  • 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

    Girl   Eight   Years  
  • Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

    Might   Texan  
  • The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

    Enemy   Texan  
  • If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

    War   Texas   Hell  
  • There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

    Texas   Two   Special  
  • I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

  • I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

    Jobs   Joining In   Law  
    "TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.
  • I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

    "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.
  • I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world

    Fun   Thinking   Texas  
  • Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

    People   Texan   Chosen  
    Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”
  • 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.

    Texas   Names   Civil War  
    Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”
  • I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

    Want   Hours   Texan  
  • First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

    Cowboy   Boots   Way  
  • 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.

    Strong   Jobs   School  
  • 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.

    Country   Texas   Natural  
    Sam Houston (1940). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”
  • Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

    Fighting   Texas   Knives  
    Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage
  • Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

    Jobs   Texas   Priorities  
    "Wendy Davis announces she is running for Texas governor" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.
  • 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.

    Texas   Done   Lines  
  • The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.

    Games   Dallas   Firsts  
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