#texas

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States. ↗

— Don Baylor

#between #everyday #everyday people #extreme #most

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#different #experience #first-hand #football #go

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. ↗

— Sam Houston

#come #learn #may #oppression #source

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat

Together we are better ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian-qoutes #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. ↗

— Laura Bush

#palestine-public-library #quote #texas #age

Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow. ↗

— Thomas W. Knowles

#wild-west #communication

Special Agent Brad Wolgast hated Texas. He hated everything about it. [...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless subdivisions and the Texas flag, which flew over everything, always as big as a circus tent; he hated the giant pickup trucks everybody drove, no matter that gas was thirteen bucks a gallon and the world was slowly seaming itself to death like a package of peas in a microwave. He hated the boots and the belts and the way people talked, ya'll this and ya'll that, as if they spent the day ropin' and ridin', not cleaning teeth and selling insurance and doing the books, like people did everywhere. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#death

Ah, Loree," he whispered near her ear. "You should hear the music." -Austin ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#lorraine-heath #texas-splendor #music

There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in. ↗

— Conrad Hilton

#dreams