Texas Lampshades

Numb the dark and you numb the light. - Brene Brown

The people of Texas want us to secede! - William Clements

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau

What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl

You can always tell a Texan, but not much. - Unknown

Parts of Texas look like Kansas with a goiter. - Unknown

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. - Simmons

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - James Keller

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch. - David A. Schmaltz

A true star shines her light on others. Be a star. - Chloe Pink

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'. - Ross Perot

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

Guns don't kill people. Dads with pretty daughters kill people. - Unknown

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. - Garth von Buchholz

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

If you have a gun you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank you can rob everyone. - Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B Johnson

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. - Christopher Walken

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. - Willie Nelson

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Unknown

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue. - Carrie Underwood

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. - E.M. Bounds

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. - Alan Alda

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St Vincent Millay

If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave. - Bill Murray

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. - Spike Milligan

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. - Joseph Pulitzer