Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Crier

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

Calamity Jane

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Calvin Jillson

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

Calvin Trillin

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

Edna Ferber

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Edna Ferber

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Edna Ferber

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

Bobby Lee

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Don Otto

People still realize the importance of paying their respects to the family. That's why funeral homes around here have big, nice visitation rooms.

Ramon Serna

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Clive James

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Amy Poehler

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

Chester Moore

It's a serious pursuit and a fascination, ... I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of things, but this is the biggest, hugest prize.

Thomas Goodwin

Forget this 7.4-mile stuff, ... fully a dozen units that can finish the course.

Peter Nicholson

This place was ripped to shreds. I was amazed. There were dozens and dozens of breaches.

Tom Renney

This lineup tonight could be symbolic of what it might take down the road here and in the playoffs. We hope the team understands the value of that and works harder to play that way than maybe they have the last half dozen games.

Linda Hall

This is the largest gift in our history and will enable us to help dozens of homeless families for years to come.

John Grahame

They have so much firepower, you have to try to match their intensity. You give them an inch and they'll score a dozen goals.

Scott Dowell

There's been a half dozen Ebola outbreaks in the world -- ever recorded -- so everything you do is groundbreaking,

Matt Lombardi

There's a lot of things going on. You can have a dozen different kinds of vacations in Puerto Rico.

Peter Tibbett

We predict at least a dozen copycats within the next 24 hours.