Texas Quotes - page 2

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)
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas! View quote
Miriam A. Ferguson
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. View quote
Molly Ivins
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults. View quote
Molly Ivins
[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf. View quote
Lloyd Bentsen
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys. View quote
Bill Moyers
You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. View quote
Ian Fleming
And the Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen? View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
We're on the moon,” Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected. (Rick Riordan)
See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It- freaking- melts. View quote
Rick Riordan
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. View quote
Robin Wright
In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India. View quote
Tippi Hedren
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries. View quote
Jenny Lawson
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. View quote
George Strait
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. View quote
Michael Caine
You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. View quote
Robert Duvall
If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas. View quote
John Podesta
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. View quote
Malcolm McDowell
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. (Forest Whitaker)
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies. View quote
Eli Wallach
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. View quote
Carroll Shelby
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! View quote
Alan Vega
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas. View quote
Aaron Spelling