Harris County

Harris County is the name of two counties in the United States:

  • Harris County, Georgia, just southwest of Metro Atlanta.
  • Harris County, Texas, the more populous of the two, and the most populous county in the state of Texas.

Famous quotes containing the words harris and/or county:

    “You overfed the boy, Ma’am. You raised an artificial spirit in the lad, unbecoming to his station on life. This would never have happened if you kept him on gruel.”
    —Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

    “It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)