Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Janis Joplin

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.

Janis Joplin

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.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Janine Turner

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Edward Smith

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

Barbara Jordan

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.

Calamity Jane

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

Dan Fogelberg

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

Ann Patchett

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Kenny Chesney

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Steve Spurrier

If you want to read about some full-blown fights, read about the Tennessee players, not our guys.

Flannery O'Connor

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

Howard Baker

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Queen Latifah

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!