10 great things ever said about ...

Texas!

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus.

Lee Trevino

Since I have lived in El Paso, I have developed a need for space that I never had before. I live in a desert, and when I find myself in a forest or a large city, I feel closed in. I need to see the horizon.

Diana Natalicio

It's so dry in West Texas the trees follow the dogs around.

anonymous

A West Texas rain: a sandstorm.

Boyce House

Texas land is so poor it takes 20 years to rust a nail.

anonymous

There is nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it's magical.

Pamela Ribon

De vedder out here I do not like. De rain vas all vind, and de vind was all sand.

anonymous German pioneer farmer in the Texas Panhandle

It has been said that Texas is a place where they barbecue everything except ice cream.

Rosemary Jent

Of the world's four great cuisines - French, Italian, Chinese and Texan - only the later has a recipe beginning, "First dig a three-foot-deep hole ..."

Jerry Flemmons

(Quelle: 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas)

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