Fort Worth Texas Quotes & Sayings

He smiled then, bringing back that twinge in her stomach, something that she only later recognized as the pangs of desire. — Leslye Walton

Someone in a high place - the mayor, chief of police, or other official - would receive information that a neighboring city was already in flames and that carloads of armed black men were coming to attack this city. This happened in Cedar Rapids when Des Moines was allegedly in flames. It happened in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and in Fort Worth, Texas, when it was alleged that Oklahoma City was in flames and carloads were converging on those cities. It happened in Reno and other western cities, when Oakland, California, was supposed to be in flames. It happened in Roanoke when Richmond, Virginia, was supposed to be in flames. — John Howard Griffin

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound. — Phil Anselmo

You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it. — Erin Bow

Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma! — Ernest Cline

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from. — Izzy Stradlin

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. — Betty Buckley

There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue, — Stephen King

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood. — Coolio

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level. — Bill Paxton

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas. — Dan Jenkins

You are not to blame,
The world's a viscous place,
So go on and think how you want,
You will not be alone in your thoughts,
Well you will but you won't in a way,
Cause a girl thought it too in a book that the library bought — Amanda Palmer

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best. — Garfield Sobers

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou

(Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.") At the landing site, there would be the brief respite — Robert A. Caro

Golf is my boyfriend right now. — Karrie Webb

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem. — Gregory D. Brenneman

She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at least. Then she'd be able to start figuring out everybody else. — Bonnie Jo Campbell