232 Great Quotes About Texas and Texan Pride

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

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.

'Jewelry, in a box this big?' I unfastened the silver latches.
'This is Texas,' Kimmie said reasonably.'

I read somewhere that you could still fit the entire world's population into Texas. Imagine that.

When a lady accessorizes here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.

Texas: state-sized porkchop of misery.

I realize we could physically fit everybody there (Texas)... that doesn't mean they could all be fed, and clothed, and given iPhones.

This is a hard country, brush country, mean country, heartbreak country. Ugly in summer, drought-stricken, dusty, glaring, but in winter it is hideous.

What had we all missed not growing up in Texas?

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.

I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

No one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

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.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave -- a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

What Texans can dream, Texans can do.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

I think being a Texan -- we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.

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."

Say what you want about George W. Bush, but the guy is a man's man. He means what he says, and he says what he means. Whether you agree with the Texan or not, at least one always knows where they stand with him.

"This is America. We're entitled to our opinions."
"Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts."

I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

It's always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.

Texas people are very open, because it's open.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

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 travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

You can take the girl out of Texas
but not the Texas out of the girl.

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world -- they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

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.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

I'm a Texan -- my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Makes me want to leave the United States and go to a more sensible place, like Texas.

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would.

Dr. Tom had said that Texas was the only place he had ever found that, when it killed you, it didn't forget about you.

How erotic Texas must be!" she said.
I was sure she had meant "exotic," but I followed through: "Maybe, if you find cactus and deserts erotic, sensual."

Texas…was evidently the only place in the known universe, including Louisiana, that actually got hotter after the sun went down.

Let us have Texas, the Empire State, governed by the people; not Texas, the truck-patch, ruled by corporate lobbyists.

Smile, you are here.

There are no chic people in Texas.

There's a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee.

Keep a spur handy.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

Only Texans and Jews understand brisket.

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken -- only tougher.

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.

The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

There's nothing like being a Texan, and I'm proud to be one.

I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

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.

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!

As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

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.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

Here's the thing about Texas -- and the thing about the border. We all know undocumented immigrants. They sit in our churches, are friends with our children, and work all around us. They are just like us.

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

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.

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

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.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

Texans ain't Texans if they aren't willing to boast about the state they call home.

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.

You don't just move to Texas. It moves into you.

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mindset of no retreat and no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.

In Texas we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Don't mess with Texas.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has blessed my vision.

There wouldn't be no Alamo,
No Cowboys in the Superbowl...
No Lonesome Dove< em>, no "Yellow Rose",
If it wasn't for Texas.