Kentucky Quotes · Page 2

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

— Margo Martindale

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

— Rand Paul

“Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Like half of Kentucky, my family has pre-existing conditions.

— Andy Beshear

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

— Josh Hopkins

It's an honor to have the support and trust of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO.

— Andy Beshear

Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.

— Jay Leno

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is.…

— George Clooney

I grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Harden County, which is not too far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.

— Daniel Cameron

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and…

— Maxine Cheshire

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone…

— Matt Gonzalez

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain…

— Molly Harper

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on…

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot…

— Jennifer Lawrence

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the…

— Tyler Childers

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They…

— Jean Shepherd

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his…

— Sam Abell

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that…

— Assata Shakur

Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our…

— Ashley Judd

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you…

— John Leguizamo

Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and…

— Byron York

I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.

— George Blanda

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

— Miles Heizer

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

— Loretta Lynn

Matt Bevin has made it clear: he cares more about out-of-state CEOs than Kentucky's working families.

— Andy Beshear

It's not about left or right, red or blue. It's about doing what is right for Kentucky.

— Amy McGrath

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

— Eyedea

Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle

— Billy Packer

Most Americans don't know how beautiful an area of the country Kentucky is.

— Amul Thapar

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.

— Ciara Bravo

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

— Abraham Lincoln

I wasn't in the right place at Kentucky, and I don't think I ever would have been comfortable in college.

— Shawn Kemp

I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.

— W. Earl Brown

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.

— Jerry Tarkanian

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

— Joe Torre

“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”

— Kelsey Brickl