Houston Quotes

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.