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:

    “People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

    “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)