You will need to find a quote either from a famous Texan or about Texas for this Extra Credit Blog.
You must post the following:
1) The quote. Please use quotations and correct punctuation/grammar/capitalization, etc...
Make sure that you have written the quote word for word. **Do not use a quote with any profanity.
2) Who made the quote. Please write their full name (if possible) and the date it was said (if possible).
The blog will close on Friday at 2:05 pm as usual. All posts after this time will not be counted.
Please use this blog post as the chance to make up a missing grade (ehem, last week's blog) or to boost your average with an extra daily grade.
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Good Luck!
-Mrs. Buchanan
"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." - Davy Crockett
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ReplyDeleteTexas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas. - Sentaor William Blakley (Not sure when it was said)
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ReplyDelete1. "All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures. But Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”
ReplyDelete2. Sam Houston
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ReplyDelete1. “I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.”
ReplyDelete2. Davy Crockett, 1836.
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ReplyDelete1) "I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control."
ReplyDelete2) Willie Nelson
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servent and a fearful master."- George Washington
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ReplyDelete1) "I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I campaigned it."
2) Govenor Ann Willis Richarda
3) Couldn't find when or where she said these words.
1) "Poor Gorge, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
ReplyDelete2) Governor Ann W. Richards
3) Textbook
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1)"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."
ReplyDelete2) Barbara Jordan
1.)"Texas shall be free and independent, or we shall perish in glorious combat." - From Juan Seguin's speech at the burial of the remains of the Alamo defenders. Béxar, February 25, 1837.
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ReplyDelete1. "Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking." - George W. Bush
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1. "The enemy never sees the back of my Texans." -General Robert E. Lee
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ReplyDelete1) "Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas." -Senator William Blakley
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“I’d rather be a fencepost in Texas, than the king of Tennessee.”
ReplyDeleteChris Wall Texas Singer-Songwriter-Austin.
1. "Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
ReplyDelete2. Sam Houston
1) "News events are like Texas Weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
ReplyDelete2) Jessica Savitch 1972
1.“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
ReplyDelete2.Ann Richards, could not find the date the quote was said.
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ReplyDelete“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.”
ReplyDeleteBum Phillips, Former Houston Oilers coach
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“Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.”
ReplyDeleteTom Landry.
The site did not state the year.
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ReplyDeleteIf I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
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ReplyDelete1) "Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
ReplyDelete2) -John Steinbeck
3)Sadly it does not say.
1)“This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.”
ReplyDelete“Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.”
2)Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3)There is no date.
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ReplyDelete1.“I’ve traveled all over the world, but I don’t think there is any place better than Texas.”
ReplyDelete2.Red Adair
3.No date was given.
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ReplyDelete"My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question."
ReplyDeleteLyle Lovett
Texas A&M class of 1979.
1)"Govern wisely, and as little as possible."
ReplyDelete2)Sam Houston
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"They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee."
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1) "Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty”.
ReplyDelete2) Lyndon Baines Johnson
3) The Great Society, U. Michigan, May 22,1964
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” - Barbara Jordan
ReplyDelete"You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in Texas."-Joe Bob Briggs
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"People say, 'how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say 'I love you.'" --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002, Quote by George W. Bush
ReplyDelete"I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans."
ReplyDelete-John Steinbeck, 1962.
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