Texas
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
Pilot Knob | 169 | 554 | 30°09′43″N 97°42′22″W / 30.162°N 97.706°W / 30.162; -97.706 (Pilot Knob) | late Cretaceous |
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Famous quotes containing the word texas:
“I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this ... great and important national act.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“Fifty million Frenchmen cant be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War Iwhen it was used by U.S. soldiersor before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)