#texas

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

#boots #cowboy #cowboy hat #culture #embraced

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

#army #ball games #banners #despair #field

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#anything #child #doing #films #friends

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. ↗

— Janine Turner

#out #take #texas #ultimately #you

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas. ↗

— Ma Ferguson

#english #enough #good #jesus #jesus christ

What are you doing?" she asked. Grimacing, he considered returning his mouth to hers and kissing her until she forgot the question and his strange behavior, but he had to know the truth. Dammit, he had to know. "Amelia told me that her toes curl when Houston kisses her. I was just trying to see if your toes curl when I kiss you." She turned a lovely shade of rose and rolled her shoulders toward her chin. "My whole body curls when you kiss me." "Your whole body?" She nodded quickly."Every inch." "Well, hell," he said as he settled his mouth greedily over hers with plans to keep her body tightly curled for the remainder of the night. -Dallas and Dee ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#dee #lorraine-heath #texas-glory #love

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. ↗

— Billy Bush

#bushes #everybody #i #texas #thinks

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

#always #class #extreme #favor #invested

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#god #mississippi #saying #texas #thank

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#kid #small-town #texas