I Was Raised In Texas Quotes

#1. I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

JoBeth Williams

#2. It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

Kimberly Elise

#3. Sometimes you just want someone to sit on the couch and watch a movie with.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

Aeriel Miranda

#5. I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas ... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.

Alana Stewart

#6. It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

Forest Whitaker

#7. Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.

Harold O.J. Brown

#8. It was overwhelming for a girl who'd been raised in a trailer park in Cumby, Texas. (Go Trojans!) I took another hit of oxygen and got dizzy. Then I stumbled and fell. Then I hit my head on the clicky ball thing and the desk and collapsed onto the floor

Countess Von Fondle

#9. I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Willie Nelson

#10. I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

Gloria Steinem

#11. I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

#12. I'm a daydreamer.

Sara Paretsky

#13. I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

Jeri Ryan

#14. If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

George W. Bush

#15. I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

Donald Driver

#16. The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

James Lafferty

#17. My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

Kate Upton

#18. I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'

Christina Hendricks

#19. I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

George W. Bush

#20. I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

Vanilla Ice

#21. The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

Robert Holden