West Texas Quotes
The best sayings about West Texas that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.
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[I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great sense of community. They cared about their neighbors. And those values, I think, have stood me well.
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.
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If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
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If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.
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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.
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I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.
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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
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I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.
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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.
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Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
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If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.
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I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
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I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.
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Roger Sessions Composer -
Ronan O'Rahilly Film Producer -
Roland H. Hartley Former Governor of Washington -
Robin Williamson Instrumentalist -
Ronnie Hawkins Musician -
Ron Galella Photographer -
Rollo May Psychologist -
Robi Ludwig Psychotherapist -
Rosemary Radford Ruether Scholar -
Roy Acuff Singer -
Ronald Isley Singer-songwriter -
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Robert Young Television actor -
Ross Mathews Television Personality -
Ruben Hinojosa U.S. Representative -
Ron Brown United States Secretary of Commerce
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