In most states, it’s more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don’t like it, wait a minute.
I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.
The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren’t going to let that happen in Florida.
There’s a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.
I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.
The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities.
Surrounded by a sweltering state known for its staunch conservatism, Austin is an oasis. It’s home to the University of Texas, which continuously fosters a well-educated youth culture who have been funneling their collective creative energy into building a vibrant music, film, and technology scene for decades.
Trump’s trade and immigration policies will deliver an economic shock to states like Texas where trade produces a substantial share of the jobs, and which depend on high oil prices.
There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas.
I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it’s cool when I fix things around the house.
My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love I saw in the faces of people who I once considered enemies.
In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone’s a musician.
There’s a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.
The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn’t a stereotype.
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can’t prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it’s just a fact.
As southeast Texas’s only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I’m especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.
I definitely remember doing ‘The Alamo’ with John Wayne and Lawrence Harvey and Linda Cristal. We’d work six days a week, and then John Wayne would invite us down to a little place in Texas called Del Rio, and we would break bread and have some wine and tell stories.
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids.
In the long term, expanding and modernizing I-27 through the Texas Panhandle will promote growth by connecting rural areas to the federal Interstate Highway system, strengthen avenues for trade which is particularly advantageous for TX-13’s agriculture industry, increase safety, and save billions in travel costs.
I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush’s social policy – from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage – women’s issues are one of the bones they’ve decided they can throw to the Christian right.
All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don’t think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it’s all marvelous fun.
You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn’t raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves – and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?
We’re a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out.
I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl – I’m not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds – and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don’t know cold until you have been to Boston.
A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I’ve been to Canada to hunt caribou.
I don’t want to be the athletic director at Texas, that’s not my expertise. I don’t want to take wins as a football coach and have someone shove me into that position because they’d think I’d like it, that I deserve it or a ‘pat on the back.’
You don’t do classics with a Texas accent.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it’s hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
When I got to Oak Hill, I got a chance to learn. I learned a lot about myself, basketball and about school. If would have stayed in Texas, I probably wouldn’t have graduated.
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State’s significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
If you listen to my music then you’ve been all through District D. That’s the South Side of Houston, Texas. That’s where I was born and raised.
I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He’s the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor’s wife right now.
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
You won’t see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I’m from Texas, you won’t see me cheering for the Cowboys because I’m from Texas. I’ll be a Redskin, through and through.
Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.
I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I’d get up on the stool and sing. ‘T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.’ I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.
I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Well, I’m a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States’ top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.
I’m from Louisiana and live in Texas now.
I grew up as a little gay boy in Paris, Texas, which was a very conservative community and I had a strong religious background as well.
