Quotes about texarkana (13 Quotes)


    This was an important win going into the Texarkana Tournament. I'm excited to get a look at Texas High before district play, and that will give us an idea of what we'll be facing in the district showdown.


    Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

    Eric has been helping with the junior program at Texarkana Country Club for several years, and I feel really fortunate to work with someone of his caliber. I'm sure his expertise will only serve to make all of the kids that much tougher.




    It's opened to all foundations. That's why it's such a little amount and with Texarkana, because we sit on the state line, some of our agencies can't have the opportunity to be in the state campaign because they're not on the Texas side.

    This agency is located in a low-income area in Texarkana, Arkansas, and provides day care for children of individuals who are working or going to school and who cannot otherwise afford day care for their children.

    There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me.

    There is a huge interest in antique automobiles everywhere across the country, ... This is the only major antique automobile museum between Little Rock, Ark., and Dallas, Texas, and believe me we will get plenty of travelers and tourists stopping in Texarkana just to tour our museum.

    In Texarkana, school integration was approached quietly, because they didn't want to have the problems like those taking place in Little Rock. That didn't mean there weren't problems. In Little Rock, with the integration of Central High, that didn't happen quietly, so here they tried to avoid those problems. I was at Grambling at the time, and we were doing things for the civil rights movement there. We were hitting the streets like a lot of colleges did, so we started going to other campuses and other cities.


    Being a native of Texarkana, I've watched the Four States Area develop and grow. I'm very excited about Peoples State Bank entering the Texarkana market, ... I am confident that Peoples will continue to build on their successful tradition of community banking in the Texarkana market.



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