Sam Houston was an important figure in Texas history.
Named in his honor are:
- Houston, Texas, the largest city in the state and fourth largest in the United States;
- Houston, Missouri;
- Houston, Pennsylvania;
- Houston County, Minnesota;
- Houston County, Tennessee;
- Houston County, Texas;
- Houston Street in New Haven, Connecticut;
- Sam Houston Tollway in Houston, Texas;
- Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas; and
- Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
- Several high schools named Sam Houston High School
- Sam Houston Elementary School in Maryville, Tennessee.
- Sam Houston National Forest in Texas;
- Sam Houston Coliseum;
- Sam Houston Park, Houston, Texas;
- Fort Sam Houston Independent School District;
- Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery;
- Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge;
- Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center;
Famous quotes containing the words list, places, named, sam and/or houston:
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Well, it’s early yet!”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“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 (b. 1946)