Texas Gun Sayings

#1. After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

Josie Loren

#2. I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

Greg Proops

#3. When Texas seceded from the Union, the German preacher, Peter Moeling, wrote from Galveston: "I shall die a true patriot and a soldier of the Cross, the gun in hand and Christ within my heart.

Ross Phares

#4. I'd learned how to handle a gun before I was fully potty trained.

Diane Kelly

#5. In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks ... MACHINE-GUN BACON.

Ted Cruz

#6. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

Clint Smith

#7. Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

James Bryce

#8. Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

Conan O'Brien

#9. You make me want to live, Rowan.

He wondered if Elide Lochan had somehow made Lorcan want to do the same.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

Natalie Maines

#11. Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don't live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they're gay. Then they have gun armoires.

Jenny Lawson

#13. No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#14. We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

George W. Bush

#15. I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Jensen Ackles

#16. I'm as honest as I can be.

Macklemore

#17. Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

Ty Segall

#18. Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

Nora Ephron