TEXAS QUOTES

[Aggie]

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation
in every sense of the word - Author John Steinbeck

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the
state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look
like Jack Nicklaus - Pro Golfer Lee Trevino

Texas is still a last frontier. It is the part of the United States where the
traditional virtues are still operating. In short, a piece of living history
- Author John C. B. Richmond

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big - Bobby Lee.

I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world,
the best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is
a fortune to any man to come here - Alamo hero Davey Crockett

I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure
entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one
section of earth by a really top hand - Author Mary Lasswell

Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas - Senator William Blakley

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I
campaigned it - Former Governor Ann Richards

I have moved over a great part of Texas and I know that within its borders
I have seen just about as many kinds of country, contour, climate and conformation
as there are in the world - Author John Steinbeck

In the covered wagon days, if a baby was born in Texarkana while the family was
crossing into the Lone Star State, by the time they reached El Paso, the baby would
be in the third grade - Texas Author Wallace O Chariton

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 - Former Houston Oilers
coach Bum Phillips

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has blessed my vision - Sam Houston

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world - Choreographer
Tommy Tune

Texas is big now, but imagine the size of her as a republic. Back then then Panhandle
had a panhandle - Author Mike Blakley

For a few precious moments.....I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky, where all
things are again possible and the wind blows free - Larry L. King

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything
is possible. Texans think big - Senator Phil Gramm

Houston is, without a doubt, the weirdest, most entertaining city in Texas,
consisting as it does of subtropical forest, life in the fast lane, a layer of oil,
cowboys and spacemen - Texas Tourism Guide

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways - Car racing
legend A.J. Foyt

My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question - Singer
Lyle Lovett - Texas A&M class of 1979

 

[Tina]

I should have visited Texas when I was able, sound a little like the country and the land, the virtues and the living my Grandfather used to tell us stories about, he probably wasn't talking about Texas, but then I will never know! Thanks Aggie

[Aggie]

You welcome, Tina. Lyle Lovett was a classmate of mine at Texas A&M University.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

“Life in San Angelo, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”

[Aggie]

"Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower.

[Aggie]

"There are still places where people think that the function of the media is to provide information."
Don Rottenberg.

[Aggie]

[Aggie]

"I am filled with humidity."
Former Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis.

[Aggie]

"It's the sediment of the House that we adjourn."
Former Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton.

[Aggie]

"Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive." - Kinky Friedman

[Aggie]

Lone Star State, here's a guide to the very best Texan phrases:
“I'm madder than a wet hen!” ...
“He's all hat and no cattle.” ...
“More than you can shake a stick at.” ...
“Ready and rarin' to go.” ...
“Bless your heart.” ...
“Might could.” ...
“I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could throw him
Texans don't say “Pepsi”, “Sprite”, “soda”, or “pop”… it's all “Coke” to us.
Texans don't always say “f#$& you” to your face… they say “bless your heart.”
Texans definitely don't say “would you fine people like to join me?”… they say “ya'll come here now.”

[Aggie]

"A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'."
---- J. Frank Dobie, Texan

[Aggie]

"Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something." Lyle Lovett