TEXAS QUOTES
quotations about Texas
Texas is like a beckoning star to American settlers.
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
attributed, Junior Reviewers: Tested Readings for Boys and Girls
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
GEORGE W. BUSH
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
ANN RICHARDS
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
Who are these people, these Texans? What do they tell us about America? What to make of a state that is so focused on itself? I wrestle with these questions all the time. One day, behind a general store in Central Texas, a firearms instructor in a wide-brimmed cowboy hat reached for the butt of his holstered gun as I approached him for an interview. The general store, the hat, the reach for the gun: the line between the myth of Texas and the reality of Texas is razor thin.
MANNY FERNANDEZ
"What Makes Texas Texas", New York Times, May 7, 2017
The miracle of Texas lies in the fact that it is the work of a handful of men. In not a single fight during the entire period from 1800 to 1845 did they muster as many as one thousand fighting men. Overwhelming odds never discouraged them and defeat but spurred them to ultimate victory.
JACK C. BUTTERFIELD
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl.
JANINE TURNER
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend--and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture.
ROSEMARY KENT
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
DAVY CROCKETT
attributed, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend
What you northerners never appreciate ... is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.
JAMES MICHENER
Texas: A Novel
There wouldn't be no Alamo,
No Cowboys in the Superbowl...
No Lonesome Dove, no "Yellow Rose",
If it wasn't for Texas.
GEORGE STRAIT
"Texas"
The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in the heart of Texas
The prairie sky is wide and high
Deep in the heart of Texas
The sage in bloom is like perfume
Deep in the heart of Texas
Reminds me of the one that I love
Deep in the heart of Texas
JUNE HERSHEY
"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
SAM HOUSTON
attributed, As Texas Goes
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
JOHN GUNTHER
Inside U.S.A.
Don't mess with Texas.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Texans ain't Texans if they aren't willing to boast about the state they call home.
ANONYMOUS
AAA Texas Tour Book, 2005
I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land & best prospects for health I ever saw is here, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to settle.
DAVY CROCKETT
letter to his children, January 9, 1836
Texas is a blend of valor and swagger.
CARL SANDBURG
attributed, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said about Texas
Texas is like Australia with the handbrake off.
TIM BLAIR
"Australian diary", The Spectator, September 26, 2015
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley