West Texas Quotes

• Si fuera dueño de Texas y del Infierno, alquilaría Texas y viviría en el Infierno.

  Philip Sheridan

  Guerra, Texas, Infierno

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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.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Thinking, Texas

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  Debo decir que, por lo que he visto de Texas, es el jardín del mundo. La mejor tierra y las mejores perspectivas para la salud que he visto, y creo que es una fortuna para cualquier hombre venir aquí. Aquí hay un mundo de tierras para colonizar.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Creer, Vaquero

  Carta a sus hijos, 09 de enero de 1836.

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• Cuando era joven, mi familia no iba de excursión al circo ni a Disneylandia. No podíamos permitírnoslos. En lugar de eso, nos quedábamos en nuestro pequeño pueblo rural del oeste de Texas y mis padres nos llevaban a los cementerios.

  Jenny Lawson

  Texas, Parent, Goes On

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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.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Children, Texas, Culture

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• Todos los nuevos estados están investidos, en mayor o menor medida, por una clase de hombres ruidosos y de segunda fila que siempre están a favor de medidas precipitadas y extremas, pero Texas estaba absolutamente invadida por tales hombres.

  Sam Houston

  Hombres, Segunda Oportunidad, Texas

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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.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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• Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

  Marty Robbins

  Girl, Texas, Mexican

  Song: El Paso

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• I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Texas, World

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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.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Long, People

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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.

  George W. Bush

  Texas, Age, President

  George W. Bush's remarks in Nashville, Tennessee, www.gpo.gov. February 1, 2006.

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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.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Horse, Fall

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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.

  Ann Wright

  Summer, Texas, August

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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.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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