“ Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. ”
- Adlai Stevenson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 386
“ Texas will again lift its 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”
- Katherine Dunn- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell. ”
- Philip Sheridan- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If you grab enough Texas land, somethin' good is bound to happen. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Life in Texas is like a giant crap game, a perpetual gamble. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”
- Larry McMurtry- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”
- Larry McMurtry- Copy
- 1.3K
“ What you northerners never appreciate... is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 564
“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”
- Davy Crockett- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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. ”
- Ann Richards- Copy
- 3K
“ When Alaska achieved statehood Texas did not for a moment surrender its historic place in the grammar of American language and braggadocio: big, bigger, biggest, Texan. Texans argue that while Alaska is twice as large in terms of crude bulk it is Texas that remains, in more significant ways, powerful, grand and pre-eminent, the basic American metaphor for size, grossness, power, wealth, ambition, high-rolling, and boasting: in a word, Texanic. ”
- Trevor Fishlock- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. ”
- Pete Hamill- Copy
- 1K
“ If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! ”
- Ma Ferguson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Good thing we've still got politics in Texas — finest form of free entertainment ever invented. ”
- Molly Ivins- Copy
- 609
“ If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? ”
- John Gunther- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? ”
- Martin Amis- Copy
- 2K
“ Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. ”
- Sam Houston- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. ”
- Molly Ivins- Copy
- 2K
“ You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. ”
- Chris Bell- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
- 1.8K
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