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The sun has risen and the sun has set, but we haven’t left Texas yet.
Eugene Neese, Bowie-Cass EC | Linden

All hat and no cattle.
Sissy Carter, Hamilton County EC | Gatesville

If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.
Tanya Steele, Bluebonnet EC | Burton

The bigger the hair, the closer to God.
Debra Mills, Nueces EC | Port Isabel

Bless your heart.
Kit Vaughn, Pedernales EC | Liberty Hill

Happy as a bull in knee-high corn.
Kim Kokles, United Cooperative Services | Gordon

Never ask a man where he’s from. If he’s from Texas, he’ll tell you, and if he’s not, don’t embarrass him.
Dixie Mayer, CECA | Comanche

I’m fixin’ to.
Judy Mueller, GVEC | Marion

Hotter than a Laredo parking lot.
Theresa Kennerly, Trinity Valley EC | Chandler

I love my H-E-B. (If I had a dollar for the number of times I have heard people say this …)
Ana Webb, Pedernales EC | Kyle

Crazier than a one-eyed cat in a mouse factory.
Ronnie Cundieff, Trinity Valley EC | Neches

Let’s stop at Buc-ee’s.
Linda Lehmann, Fayette EC | La Grange

Grinnin’ like a goat eatin’ briar.
Elisabeth Albrecht Cawthon, Victoria EC | Mission Valley

Hold my beer and watch this.
Terry Topham, Bandera EC | Boerne

It’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Tommy Traylor, San Bernard EC | Bellville

I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could.
James J. Huff Jr., Rusk County EC | Carthage

That dog won’t hunt.
Joan Adams, CoServ | Justin

Don’t let your shirt tail hit your rear end until you get that job done.
Jerry Priddy, Hamilton County EC | Priddy

Wishin’ doesn’t get it, but it don’t hurt.
Bonnie Gloeckner Johnson, Wharton County EC | Pierce

It isn’t bragging if you can do it.
Todd Keller, CoServ | Krum

You all may go to hell, I’m going to Texas.
Benny Calvit, Bowie-Cass EC | De Kalb

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Andrew Forsythe, Pedernales EC | Spicewood

Wasn’t born here but got here as soon as I could.
Steve Bailey, PenTex Energy | Gainesville

How ya doin’?
Clady Paul Page, Jasper-Newton EC | Kirbyville

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
LeAnn M. Holt, Farmers EC | Lavon

Howdy, y’all.
Donalie Boyce, CECA | May

If it can’t be fixed with duct tape and bailing twine, it can’t be fixed.
Sherry Crecraft Krupinski | Via Facebook

Big hat, no cattle.
Lynnda Jenkins, South Plains EC | Lubbock

Come and take it.
Linda Romanenko | Via Facebook

Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, we would say, “I watched my dog run away for three days.”
Alan Hogan, Trinity Valley EC | Murchison

All y’all.
Lynn Bromley, Central Texas EC | Comfort

Y’all come back now. Ya hear?
Anita Lyons, Bluebonnet EC | Muldoon

I haven’t seen her in a blue moon
Stephen Lupton, Concho Valley EC | Christoval

How ’bout them Cowboys!
Susan Esselman, Grayson-Collin EC | New Hope

If it ain’t the spiders, it’s the pissants.
Rick Zimmerly, Central Texas EC | Mountain Home

God bless Texas.
Robert and Sarah Wanat, Medina EC | Castroville

Don’t mess with Texas.
Socorro Hernandez, Magic Valley EC | Edinburg

I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.
Mike Nejtek, Fannin EC | Windom

Not my barn, not my cattle.
Marianne Appolito, Grayson-Collin EC | Van Alstyne

There she blows.
Barbara Boyne, Pedernales EC | Lago Vista

Saucered and blowed.
Bill “Cowboy” Lamza, Bluebonnet EC | Brenham

Howdy.
Juliette Orloff Sclawy, Houston County EC | Elkhart

You can’t fix stupid.
Mitch Cooper, Pedernales EC | Cedar Park

You might give some serious thought to thanking your lucky stars you are in Texas.
Graham Moore, United Cooperative Services | Granbury

Hotter outside than a two-dollar pistol.
Mark Browning, Sam Houston EC | Goodrich

Texas born, Texas bred and when I die, Texas dead
Maureen Reagan, Bluebonnet EC | Lockhart

I’m from Maine—the main part of Texas.
Thomas Page, Trinity Valley EC | Mabank

Everything is bigger in Texas.
Joe Trevino Jr., Bartlett EC | Killeen

Hold your horses!
Kathy Hille, Pedernales EC | Austin

Every snake I see is a rattle-headed copper moccasin.
Dixie Mayer, CECA | Comanche

Skeet.
Chelsea Sumners, Lyntegar EC | Loop

If you find a turtle on a fence post, you know it didn’t get there by itself.
Jana and Tom Vick, HILCO EC | Midlothian

You won’t know the difference on a galloping horse.
Pat Talley, Nueces EC | Hudson Oaks

He can strut sitting down.
John Beard, Fayette EC | Flatonia

Knee-high to a grasshopper.
Keri Shannon, Trinity Valley EC | Bradford