Texas Quotes - Page 25

• English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

  Miriam A. Ferguson

  Jesus, Children, Women

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• When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Horse, Fall

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• They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Iraq, President

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• I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'

  John Cornyn

  Sunshine, Law, Government

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• I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.

  Davy Crockett

  Strong, Fighting, Done

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

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• The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

  Darrell Royal

  Home, Games, Neutrality

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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  Candace Kita

  Growing Up, Home, Stills

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• I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

  Bear Bryant

  Running, School, Alabama Football

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• You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

  Jeff Goodell

  Dog, Iowa, President

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• People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!

  Michael Coren

  Squares, Land, Feet

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• Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

  Calvin Jillson

  Helping, Election, Stealing

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• I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Powerful

  "Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

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• Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

  Victoria Finlay

  Children, Loss, Caring

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.152, Ballantine Books

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• This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Book, Titles, Doe

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• Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

  Gib Lewis

  Distance, Long, Scare

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• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

  Mark Steyn

  Fighting, Men, Symbolism

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• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  Janine Turner

  Ballet, Directors, Boards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, People, Water

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• As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Cities, Numbers

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• The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

  John Sherman Cooper

  School, Police, Rifles

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• I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

  Theophilus London

  Cowboy, Men, Looks

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• In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.

  Bill Moyers

  Boys, White, Southern

  "Moyers on Democracy" by Bill Moyers, (p. 99), 2008.

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• Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

  Chris Kyle

  Redneck

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Who I Am, Play

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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