I didn’t grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child… I don’t think that’s why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they’ve never copped to it.
I have a picture of Texas Motor Speedway with highlighted areas of the racetrack where there are no SAFER barriers – and it’s an overwhelming amount of spots.
One of my favorite books is ‘Armadillo Rodeo’, and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.
I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn’t conceive of why I’d want to stop to do ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’
I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
I don’t have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don’t have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.
I don’t care if I never see Texas again.
There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.
When you’re the head coach at Texas and you’re winning a lot of games, you don’t have to have new ideas, you don’t have to change and you really don’t doubt that much.
I’m a Texas guy, and the good and bad of that is that I’m always, first and foremost, loyal. If it weren’t for ‘Supernatural,’ I wouldn’t have a lot of the blessings that I have today, so I’m going to play it out. I’m going to give it my all.
As a child, I loved to sing. When I was 8, my mother sent my brother and me to a summer music theater program in Texas. We did ‘Guys and Dolls’ at the camp, and I was so depressed when it was over. That’s when I realized that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I’m always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home – it’ll be my home forever.
Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.
Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry.
And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
I represent the top agriculture district in Texas, and Texas is the top agriculture state in the country, so I know just how important agriculture priorities are to our state and local economies.
Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.
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!
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas… raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.
Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching ‘The Wall’ and, you know, ‘Money’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ which are fantastic records, of course.
I’d heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.
Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
Experienced no-limit Texas Hold’em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn’t much of a reality.
Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we’re more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland – and even Texas – are more offensive oriented. We’re a club that doesn’t blow anybody out, but at the same time we don’t get blown out much. We’re in most of the games.
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
My grandmother on my mother’s side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as a little girl and had come to Texas by covered wagon.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven’t made it to Australia yet, but someday I’m going.
I’m from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I’d run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.
I like to make movies in Texas because that’s where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it’s hard to make films in Texas.
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn’t let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like – and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.
I wanted to do ‘Texas Trilogy’ on stage. But it didn’t do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
I’m just a kid from El Paso, Texas.
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you’ll watch tomorrow. It’s going to be another great look back.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
I’ve lived all over the country – Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine – but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.
I watched ‘Alien,’ and I watched ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,’ the Swedish version. I watched the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ and I watched the Jessica Biel version and watched Jessica’s performance.
The first event I vividly remember was competing at the Junior Olympics in Seattle, Washington. It was my first major competition outside of Texas, and I remember being very nervous. I could not control my nerves, and I threw a few fouls.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she’s seen tougher.
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.
If a man’s from Texas, he’ll tell you. If he’s not, why embarrass him by asking?
When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that’s even stronger than a handshake in Texas.
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz’s election in 2012 and scored victories in some statewide primaries. But to me, as the Tea Party gets stronger within the Republican Party in Texas, the prospect of a blue Texas becomes stronger and stronger.
