Texas Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old texas quotes, texas sayings, and texas proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. Willie Nelson
This is America. We're entitled to our opinions. Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. Tom Landry
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Katherine Dunn
Texas is like an attractive, troublesome, and immature person who gets an inheritance -- ranching -- and then gets a second one -- oil -- and now has to grow up and get to work. Joe B. Frantz
Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. Sam Houston
In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Piper Perabo
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
No place but Texas would I ever roam. No place but Texas, my home, sweet home. Willie Nelson
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. Ed Gillespie
The sky in Texasis the most amazing sky in the whole world country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world. Idina Menzel
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. Malcolm McDowell
If you grab enough Texas land, somethin' good is bound to happen. James Michener
Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend--and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture. Rosemary Kent
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top. Wendy Davis
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. Bum Phillips
I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle. Davy Crockett
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! General Robert E. Lee
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. Texas Guinan
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking. George W. Bush
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. John Steinbeck
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. John Steinbeck.
There wouldn't be no Alamo, no cowboys in the Super bowl. No lonesome dove, no "Yellow Rose", if it wasn't for Texas. George Strait
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. JANINE TURNER
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas. Davy Crockett
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. James Michener
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? John Gunther
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. Ann Richards
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell. General Philip Henry Sheridan
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. Molly Ivins