John Steinbeck Quotes

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word ... A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.

There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

There is a strong propaganda value to history as taught in American Schools

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

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.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.