Alamo Quotes

• I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honour and that of his country, Victory or death.

  William B. Travis

  Country, Military, Long

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• Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Aids, Damn, Wells

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• My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

  Davy Crockett

  Heart, Thinking, Tongue

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Davy Crockett, 1836.

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• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Son, Troops, Gains

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• Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

  John Wayne

  War, Mean, People

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

  John Wayne

  Decision, May, Hats

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

  Phil Collins

  Stars, America, Texas

  "Pop star Phil Collins shows passion for all things Alamo". Interview with J. R. Gonzales, www.chron.com. May 04, 2012.

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• I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Giving, May

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Alcohol

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Dumb, Fifty

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

  Bum Phillips

  Texas, Done, Lines

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• Republic. I like the sound of the word.

  John Wayne

  Sound, Republic, Conservative

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.62, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Boys

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• The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

  Richard Hovey

  War, Maine, Ships

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

  Gail Mazur

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Wall

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• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Bullets, Belts

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• I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

  Stuart Pearce

  Water, Buckets, Sometimes

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• Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Use, Green

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I will put my Butkus (Award) in storage. I will put my Alamo Bowl MVP trophy in storage. Jerseys, anything Penn State, in storage. Wherever Tom Bradley goes, that's the school I will start to put memorabilia up in my home. I'm done. I'm done with Penn State. If they're done with us, I'm done with them.

  LaVar Arrington

  Home, School, Awards

  "Bill O’Brien Hire At Penn State Angers LaVar Arrington, Other Former Players Loyal To Tom Bradley" by Michael Klopman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Japan, Different

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car.

  Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

  Wrestling, Car, Knows

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• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Gun, Car, Risk

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• Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

  CM Punk

  Texas, Wwe, Purpose

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• Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Football, Men, Levels

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