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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.

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Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

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At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Quotes by Adam Schiff

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The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Quotes by Yakov Smirnoff

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

Quotes by William H. Wharton

Culture Quotes

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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.

Quotes by William H. Wharton

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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

Quotes by Vanilla Ice

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I was given an opportunity to do sports in college and get a degree because of it. I ran track for the University of Texas and was studying to be a petroleum landman. And I was gifted an opportunity to...

Quotes by Trevante Rhodes

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Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

Quotes by Tony Oller

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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

Emotion Quotes

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I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Quotes by Tom Hicks

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.