Texas Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

  David Travis

  Night, Should Have, Lines

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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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• Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Two, Airports, Community

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Blood

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

  Michael McCaul

  Fire, Years, Wind

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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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• 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

  Dream, Believe, Heart

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's dress, the mind of a grasshopper, or into the glass eyeballs of a buffalo head mounted on the wall of a home in suburban Texas to contemplate 'man's tireless ingenuity.'

  Tony Hoagland

  Wall, Home, Men

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• Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Travel, Sound

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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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• I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Beautiful, Heart, Loss

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• Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

  Larry McMurtry

  Dream, Rich

  Larry McMurtry (1968). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas : with a New Preface”, Simon & Schuster

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

  Wendy Davis

  Reality, Abortion, Essentials

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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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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Dust, Small Business, Enron

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

  Christopher Cross

  California, Stuff, Bugs

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• Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

  Yogi Berra

  Important, Campaigns, Politics

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• I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".

  Percy Foreman

  Years, Law, Judging

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• I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, Thinking, Facts

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• I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.8, Penguin

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• That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

  Rick Riordan

  Snow, Happens

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