Texas quotes

It was part of theTexas ritual† We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

- Edna Ferber
  Giant, ch.2.

Thethreemost overratedthingsintheworldarethestate of Texas, the FBI, and hunting trophies.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
Quoted in William Manchester The Death of a President (1967).

The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond. 537

- LarryJeff McMurtry
  Lonesome Dove, ch.93.

It's aTexas wrestling match with a new team against you every night.

-Walter Bigelow Wriston
  On life as a chief executive officer. In the NewYorkTimes, 25 Apr.