TEXAS Quotes

"I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans." - John Steinbeck, 1962

"Texas is too big a state to take in one gulp." -- Texas Monthly Guidebook		"What Texans can dream, Texans can do." -- President George Walker Bush		"I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand." -Mary Lasswell-
	"I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world." -- Broadway choreographer & Wichita Falls native -- Tommy Tune		"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." -- Davy Crockett		"I shall never surrender or retreat." -- William Barrett Travis, the Alamo, 1836
"Nor is it the habit of Texans to look back. We have tradition of looking forward and not looking back to see where we have been or who is following us." -- President Lyndon B. Johnson		Texas is . . . " a blend of valor and swagger." -- Carl Sandburg, poet		"It is impossible to exaggerate the pleasant character, the beauty, and the fertility of the province of Tejas." -- Father Antonio Olivares, 1716
	"I'm about to enter Texas -- my spirits are good and my heart is straight." -- Sam Houston, 1832		"George Jones is to country music what the pope is to the Catholic Church." -Trace Adkins		"Other states were carved or born, Texas grew from hide and horn." --Texas Author Berta Hart Nance
"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, 1955			"No man with gumption would have thought of leaving Texas in the heraldic past, unless he were at gunpoint. There was too much excitement. Hell, a continent had to be explored, a wilderness subdued... Longhorns had to be driven to market, railroads brought in, and oil rigs set in motion." Bill Porterfield "A Loose Herd of Texans"