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Definition of Texas

Texas

A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

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Texas Quotations

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
George Carlin

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

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
Bear Bryant

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.
Jessica Savitch

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston

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

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston

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

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Ross Perot

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Stephen Ambrose

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Darrell Royal

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
Darrell Royal

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
Kinky Friedman

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
Kinky Friedman

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

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
Calamity Jane

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
Calamity Jane

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
F. Murray Abraham

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
Joni Mitchell

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.
Corrine Brown

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