Texan Culture Quotes

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

When I first met George W. Bush, I had expected to meet Yale and I got West Texas.

Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

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.

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

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'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.

Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

You don't find anyone like Texans anywhere else in the world.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want to be alone in a room with that guy, I thought. His gaze moved downward in lazy inspection, returned to my face, and he gave me one of those respectful nods that Texan men had raised to an art form.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.