Classic Texan Sayings

#1. When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion. - Author: Susan Minot

#2. Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#3. The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. - Author: Virginia Satir

#4. Look for magic in the daily routine. - Author: Lou Barlow

#5. People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them. - Author: Neil Sheehan

#6. My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. - Author: Derek Jeter

#7. Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. - Author: Ellsworth Huntington

#8. War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers. - Author: Sean Beaudoin

#9. There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship. - Author: Joan Claybrook

#10. And so every one of us has to find out for himself what is allowed and what is forbidden
forbidden for him. It is entirely possible to never do anything forbidden at all and still be an absolute scroundel. And vice versa. - Author: Hermann Hesse

#11. Where would fashion be without literature? - Author: Diana Vreeland

#12. He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once. - Author: Colum McCann

#13. Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety. - Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

#14. Kody "You know the Chinese have a curse."
Nick "And that is?"
Kody "May you live an interesting life. - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon