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John Steinbeck "Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
John Steinbeck "A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner."
John Steinbeck "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."
Gale Storm, actress "No matter where I am, in my heart I'll always be a Texan."
George Strait "There wouldn't be no Alamo, No Cowboys in the Superbowl... No Lonesome Dove, no "Yellow Rose", If it wasn't for Texas."
George Strait "When I have time off the road, a trip to Port Aransas is always a pleasure. One of my favorite coastal pastimes is fishing for redfish in a flatboat. I like to cook the catch of the day on the barbecue. With the skin on. And whether I catch anything or not, I always enjoy the good eats at Pelican's Landing and Beulah's."
Sheryl Swoopes, Houston Comets ''No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back."
David Taylor, editor. 'Pride of Place ' "There is very little that binds us here in Texas. We may talk about music, cowboys, big cars, big hair, boots, open landscapes, and forests, but each of these reflects only a part of Texas, very little about its glue. About the closest thing one can say that makes us Texan is our pride in being Texans."
Texas Tourism Guide "Houston is, without a doubt, the weirdest, most entertaining city in Texas, consisting as it does of subtropical forest, life in the fast lane, a layer of oil, cowboys and spacemen."
Texas Department of Transportation "What others have called 'braggadocio' we Texans call pride... after all, 'It ain't braggin' if it's true.' We're crazy about our home state and we want the world to know it."
Texas Government Code, Chapter 3100, Sections 3100.101-3100.104 "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and Indivisible."
Texas Department of Transportation Anti-Litter Campaign, 1986 "Don't Mess with Texas."
Texas State Travel Guide "Texas: It's like a whole other country."
Hunter S. Thompson "I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him."
Robert Toombs "Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war."
Lee Trevino, Pro Golfer "If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus."
Jesse Truvillion, preacher "Growing up in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas endowed one with a sense of awe about life and living that marked one's character. The Thicket gave distinctive meanings to words like work, love, family, home, hope, truth, joy, pain, and education."
Tommy Tune "I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world."
Tommy Tune, dancer and choreographer born in Wichita Falls "Dallas is a city of sophistication."
Janine Turner "I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
Ike Turner "They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."
Janine Turner "You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl, and ultimately not the girl out of Texas."