Tennessee Quotes · Page 4

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.

— Paul Mooney

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

— Miley Cyrus

Hey, are you from tennessee? cause your the only 10 I see… ;)

— $Teady

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

— J. B. Smoove

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

— Flannery O'Connor

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

— Tina Turner

I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. I grew up in Antioch; it's like on the south end of Nashville.

— Jelly Roll

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

— Booger McFarland

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…

— James Agee

A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So…

— Lane Kiffin

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my…

— Al Gore

I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to…

— Carlene Carter

If you go to Tennessee, I will be there at all the games. I will be there to support you, but I…

— The Blind Side

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in…

— George Strait

“Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without…

— Anonymous

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

— H. L. Mencken

Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin'…

— George Strait

Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United…

— Frank Norris

I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually…

— Pat Summitt

My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps…

— Pat Forde

If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become…

— Scott Bessent

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang…

— Ashley Monroe

History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West…

— Steve Kornacki

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind…

— H. L. Mencken

I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

— Jovan Adepo

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

— Andy Ogle

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

— Jamal Lewis

I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

— Jamal Lewis

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

— Rodney Crowell

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

— Kelsea Ballerini

When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

— Valerie June

“The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.”

— Flannery O'Connor

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

— Andrea Martin

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

— William Faulkner

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

— Wallace Stevens

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

— Elia Kazan

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

— Steve Earle

“I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.”

— Wallace Stevens

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— Rachel

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

— Paul Simon