“When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.”
George Foreman
“You hear about poor Houston and poor Denver and poor this team and that, but we lose one of the top five players in the game and a weapon like (Barbosa) and it's like an afterthought. Yeah, we should be even better, but we know we're going to get better, and that's a good feeling.”
Steve Nash
“This is the height of fiscal irresponsibility, ... I can just see these poor, homeless people sitting in the Houston Astrodome saying, 'Thank God, I don't have to pay some death tax.' ”
Dick Durbin
“New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.”
Nigel Goslin
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart
“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”
Dan Rather
“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
Neil Armstrong
