Texas Quotes - Page 10

• In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jeans, Womb

  "Kelly Clarkson Covers Lucky Magazine August 2012, Talks Bandage Dresses", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

  Bill Hicks

  Museums, Dallas, Causes

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• I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

  Drew Brees

  Football, Grew Up, States

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• Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Memories

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Play, Cities

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.

  Neal Boortz

  Moving, Unions, Republic

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2012

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• I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

  James A. Michener

  New Year, Years, Office

  James A. Michener (2014). “Texas: A Novel”, p.25, Dial Press

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• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, Government, Talking

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• There's no question that I love playing in Texas. I love the fans. I love everything about Texas.

  Mark Teixeira

  Fans

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• Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

  Don Baylor

  People, Everyday, United States

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• Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

  Marty Robbins

  Girl, Mexican, West

  Song: El Paso

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• Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Mexican, Done

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• When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

  Jim Hightower

  America, Attention, Done

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• Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

  Scott McClellan

  New Orleans, People, Black

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• George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

  Donella Meadows

  Climate, Care, Climate Change

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• As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, House, Dollars

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• Maybe I will go to Paris.
  Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never
  Go back to Texas again

  James Crumley

  Paris, Hell, Knows

  James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage

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• Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Roots, Differences, Grass

  "Astroturf Lobbying Organizations: Do Fake Grassroots Need Real Regulation" by Henry Young, "Illinois Business Law Journal", November 2, 2009.

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• I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

  Catherine Crier

  Training, Watches, Three

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• My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

  James Roday

  Father, Mexican, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.

  Larry L. King

  Blow, Wind, Sky

  Larry L. King (1980). “Of outlaws, con men, whores, politicians, and other artists”, Viking Adult

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Atlanta, Doe, East

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

  Anne Grant

  Friendly, Information, County

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Careers

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