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:

    “Mr. Brownlow: The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.
    Bumble: If that’s what the law supposes, sir, then the law’s an ass. And if that’s the eye of the law, sir, then the law’s a bachelor.”
    —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)