Best Alamo Quotes

#1. I made some fresh pasta with a neat machine Frank brought from New York; it flattens the dough in sheets and cuts the pasta into any shape you want. It's important to have toys like that, if you live in Maine.

John Irving

#2. Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

Phil Collins

#4. Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch's men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey.

Harry Turtledove

#5. it's a losing battle at this point,but so was the alamo

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#6. I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

Phil Collins

#7. The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

Jefferson Davis

#8. The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

Michael Hastings

#9. The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.

Phil Collins

#10. I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

Bum Phillips

#11. Republic. I like the sound of the word.

John Wayne

#12. I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

John Wayne

#13. I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

Ozzy Osbourne

#14. I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

Hugh Hewitt

#15. Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Tony Kornheiser

#16. I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

John Mackey

#17. I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

Lee Trevino

#18. I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.

Jessica Collins

#19. Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

Wanda Sykes

#21. We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Jens Jensen

#22. Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

Quentin Tarantino

#23. The Princess Bride nights at the Alamo Drafthouse cinemas, a national restaurant/movie house, have become so popular that they now produce their own licensed Princess Bride wine.

Cary Elwes

#24. Remember the Alamo" was the battle cry that led Sam Houston's troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later - and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.

Bill O'Reilly

#25. The cinema industry is competing against everything else people can do on a Friday or Saturday night. If they don't have a good time, you're going to lose them to something else. So much of what we do is trying to make the Alamo experience special.

Tim League

#26. We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Richard Paul Evans

#27. Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Walt Whitman

#28. Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

Richard Hovey

#29. Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

CM Punk

#30. I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Phil Collins

#31. There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

Phil Collins

#32. When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Enid Bagnold

#33. You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car.

Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

#34. Well, I can feel superior for my good deed." I flashed him a smile. "How's that for a selfish reason?

Kim Harrington