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 of, list, places, named, sam and/or houston:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“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)
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
—Josephine Baker (1906–1975)
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“Well, it’s early yet!”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“When your dreams tire, they go underground
and out of kindness that’s where they stay.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)