Quotes About Alamo

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lee Trevino

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Jefferson Davis

#9. 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

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

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

#15. 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

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

Walt Whitman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Jessica Collins

#22. 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

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

CM Punk

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

Bob Lutz

#27. Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

#28. Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

John C. Maxwell

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

John Wayne

#30. Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Kurt Browning

#31. At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

K.A. Applegate

#32. So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Jose Mourinho

#33. Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.

Sue Monk Kidd

#34. ...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.

Immanuel Kant

#35. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Joseph Addison

#36. It's funny how much of your childhood is about proximity.

Jenny Han

#37. For men cease to possess all things the moment they desire all things for their own.

Seneca.

#38. Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don't implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. His whole body itching with the desire to ask questions. I need some tape to put over my mouth, he thought.

James Dashner