Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blake Shelton

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

Deborah Kass

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

Charles Haley

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

Barry Watson

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

David Noel

Man, he gets ridden more than a cowboy riding his horse.

Travis Fimmel

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

Rich Dalrymple

What we'd like to do is encourage Cowboys fans to turn down the TV sound and listen to our flagship radio station. Just like on game day.

Demetri Martin

For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

Brion James

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

David Dewhurst

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

Catherine Crier

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.

Calamity Jane

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Charley Pride

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

Charles Kuralt

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

Edna Ferber

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Edna Ferber

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Edna Ferber

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