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Texas Quotes

A big state, said in a few lines.

This set ranges from a musician noting Dallas as a birthplace despite growing up elsewhere, to a joke about where oil sits versus where policy gets made. It also nods toward the state's long, unsettled history, a subject explored further in our Geography collection.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

Quotes by Louis Sachar

'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate...

Quotes by Lori Wilde

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

Quotes by Lin Shaye

The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

Quotes by Lauren Shuler Donner

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

Quotes by Laura Moser

The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.

Quotes by Kurt Sutter

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Quotes by Kinky Friedman

Texas A&M was always my biggest school.

Quotes by Khris Middleton

Texas is made for trade.

Quotes by Kevin Brady

I'm from Houston, Texas.

Quotes by Kendrick Sampson

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

Quotes by Kay Bailey Hutchison

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

Quotes by Kay Bailey Hutchison

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

Quotes by Katie Couric

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

Quotes by Johnny Gimble

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

Quotes by Johnny Manziel

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.

Quotes by John Sherman Cooper

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

Quotes by John Sharp

I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.

Quotes by John Lee Hancock

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

Quotes by John Hawkes

Texas comes across here as both a personal marker of identity and a place with a genuinely tangled past. For related themes, browse our Culture and Identity pages.