Texas Quotes - Page 12

• At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

  Arthur Fremantle

  War, Yards, Helping

  Arthur Fremantle (2008). “Three Months in the Southern States”, p.75, Applewood Books

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• Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

  Maxcy Gregg

  War, Eye, Attention

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• If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

  Ron White

  Ifs

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• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  H. Beam Piper

  Excess, Killing, Politician

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

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• In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

  William H. Wharton

  Fear, Mexican, Dread

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• It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

  William H. Wharton

  Government, Confusion, Insecurity

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• I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Senior, Running, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet.

  Bob Corritore

  Red

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• 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

  Football, Country, Player

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• Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that God is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he's probably for Mitt Romney!

  Jay Leno

  Running, President, Calling

  "Timothy Geithner". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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• I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, People, Corporations

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• Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Sick, Lessons

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Escaping

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.

  Ayman Mohyeldin

  Hate, Book, Home

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• Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

  Molly Ivins

  Dog, Horse, Men

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• We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply because he was gay. In the last year alone, we've seen the shootings of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish children simply because of who they were. This is not the American way. We must draw the line. Without delay, we must pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And we should reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Hate, Gay

  "The full speech: part two", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

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• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  Edie Brickell

  Beautiful, Song, Dirty

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• Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

  James Hansen

  Morning, Jobs, Past

  "NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather", www.cnn.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Reading, School, Math

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• So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Military, School, Degrees

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• Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

  John Steinbeck

  Mind, States, State Of Mind

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• You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

  Janine Turner

  Girl

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

  Renee Zellweger

  Lying, Clouds, Remember

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• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  Fairuza Balk

  Color, Beats

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