Welcome to Texas Quotes, a collection of timeless words that encapsulate the spirit, pride, and essence of the Lone Star State. Texas, renowned for its vast landscapes, rich history, and vibrant culture, has inspired generations with its resilience, independence, and larger-than-life attitude. From iconic figures to everyday Texans, the words spoken and written about this diverse and dynamic state reflect its unique character and enduring allure.
Whether you’re a native Texan, a visitor passing through, or simply captivated by the mystique of Texas, these quotes offer a glimpse into the heart and soul of this legendary land. From the rugged beauty of the Hill Country to the bustling energy of its cities, from tales of frontier heroes to the poetic musings of modern writers, the quotes gathered here celebrate the diversity and dynamism that define Texas. Join us as we explore the wisdom, wit, and wisdom of those who have been touched by the Lone Star State, and discover the inspiration they offer to all who encounter them.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes spanning different eras, perspectives, and themes, each capturing a unique facet of Texas life. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, nostalgia, or simply a deeper understanding of what makes Texas so special, these quotes are sure to resonate. Feel free to copy them, pair them with images, or even stylize them with fonts to create your own tribute to the indomitable spirit of Texas. So, dive in and immerse yourself in the words that embody the essence of Texas.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. Robert Wilson
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults. Molly Ivins
I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions. Bianca Marroquin
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. Corrine Brown
I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn’t have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar’s Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing. Krista Allen
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six. Travis Scott
I made it from Paris, Texas, to Paris on the Strip. Who else can say that? Shangela
I’m from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane. Shangela
I’m super laid back. I’m from Texas. I love my family. Selena Gomez
I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He’s the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor’s wife right now. Ellen DeGeneres
‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is just one of those movies that’s like a page of history. You can’t really go wrong. It’s a prequel. It’s not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after. Diora Baird
Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that! LeAnn Rimes
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. Fran Lebowitz
I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state. Drew Brees
One thing about Texas people, they’re very passionate about their Rock N’ Roll, and I love it. Steven Adler
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes. Kinky Friedman
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo. Molly Ivins
The Republic of Texas is no more. Anson Jones
One of my favorite books is ‘Armadillo Rodeo’, and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos. Jan Brett
The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘Galveston.’ Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. Keith Urban
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. A. J. Foyt
I live in Texas, man. It’s hard to be a vegetarian down here. Samuel Ervin Beam
Even in Texas, there’s a lot of people who’ve never been to Lubbock. Mike Leach
My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the ’70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria. Kehinde Wiley
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. Ian Fleming
I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, ‘Let’s not do karate this year. Let’s not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.’ Sarah Shahi
I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it’s home – Texas is home. I’ve been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile. Cristela Alonzo
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. Roger Clemens
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold’em. Cheryl Hines
Texas is as alien as Mars. Joe R. Lansdale
I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don’t care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I’m trying to please are myself and my fans, because they’re the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever. Kelly Clarkson
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. Andrew Jackson
My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it. Maya Wiley
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. Yakov Smirnoff
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. Ed Gillespie
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California. Rick Perry
In Texas, agriculture production is critical for our economy and food supply. Ronny Jackson
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. Sam Houston
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth. Sam Graves
Minnesota is legit. There’s so much space to run, like back home in Texas. Jimmy Butler
I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing. Larry Hagman
I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn’t go visit them. Pedro Pascal
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the ’70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. Duane Chapman
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure. David Berman
Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It’s present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I’m back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction. Tim O’Brien
As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in the ‘Chuck Norris Facts’ – those hyperbolic sayings that elevate my abilities beyond my capabilities. Others view me in light of the character I played in ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ or in one of my 20 tough-guy films. Chuck Norris
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. Molly Ivins
Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem. Will Hurd
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico? Stephen Ambrose
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
We opened the first Men’s Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived. George Zimmer
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat. Alexander Skarsgard
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she’s seen tougher. Dan Rather
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. Michael Caine
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
‘Paris, Texas’ is the first film that I’ve totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do – and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term. Harry Dean Stanton
I’m from Indiana. I know what you’re thinking, Indiana… Mafia. But in Indiana it’s not like New York where everyone’s like, ‘We’re from New York and we’re the best’ or ‘We’re from Texas and we like things big’ it’s more like ‘We’re from Indiana and we’re gonna move.’ Jim Gaffigan
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. Sam Houston
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn’t fit in, and it was pretty lonely. Pedro Pascal
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? P. J. O’Rourke
I’m a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. Johnny Manziel
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office. Molly Ivins
I’m from Texas, so I’m an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in Vietnam, but who didn’t? Barbara Barrie
I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control. Willie Nelson
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ is about that area. Vanilla Ice
If a man’s from Texas, he’ll tell you. If he’s not, why embarrass him by asking? John Gunther
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‘walking.’ George W. Bush
The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn’t kick me out of his class. He turned me on to ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.’ I had picked up Dylan with ‘Bringing It All Back Home,’ and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn’t heard. Steve Earle
One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told ‘Texas’ Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang ‘My Mother’s Eyes,’ and she was knocked out. Frankie Valli
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. Abraham Lincoln
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out. John Hawkes
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn’t recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can’t stand them. Baker Mayfield
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it’s hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves. Joe R. Lansdale
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas… raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength. Alana Stewart
The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities. Abby Johnson
I know that in Ames, Iowa, they fancy themselves being experts on the wind, but in Lubbock, Texas, we’ll put our wind up against your wind in Iowa. Mike Leach
It’s just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it’s not a thousand acres, it’s considered a ranchette. Betty Buckley
My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I’ve got one whole half of my family that’s Mexican through and through. James Roday
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
I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. Sandy Duncan
The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ And the part of Sneezy fell to me. Tommy Lee Jones
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center’s initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston’s and Texas’ continued growth. Walter O’Brien
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. Ricky Williams
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa’s not a tiny town. H. G. Bissinger
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. George Carlin
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. Isoroku Yamamoto
I never had naming rights at Texas Stadium. Jerry Jones
My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, ‘Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,’ with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing. Natalie Maines
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212. O. Henry
One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don’t have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don’t, you shut it down. It works to our benefit – it always has. Molly Ivins
My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas. Brett Kavanaugh
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. Patrick Swayze
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. Sam Houston
You gotta love Rick Perry’s swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack. Jeff Goodell
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I’ve been to Canada to hunt caribou. George Strait
In Texas it’s always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Piper Perabo
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In ‘Holes,’ I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. Louis Sachar
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live. Sam Elliott
