Kentucky Quotes · Page 4

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

— Dennis Hopper

I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

— Amy McGrath

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

— Kelsey Brickl

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

— Joe Torre

I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky.

— Amy McGrath

I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

— Sturgill Simpson

It's a true honor to have the endorsement of the Kentucky Professional Fire Fighters.

— Andy Beshear

My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.

— Noah Cyrus

We got Jaylen Samuels who's a tremendous receiver, a talented runner. We got Benny Snell. We know the work that he did…

— James Conner

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

Race has clearly played a role in Kentucky's Obama-phobia, as it has in other swaths of Appalachia. The Obama administration's supposed 'war…

— Steve Kornacki

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas…

— David Morrell

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up.…

— Bob Edwards

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

— Hugo Black

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a…

— Will Oldham

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family…

— J. D. Vance

“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was…

— Kelsey Brickl

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

— Sam Abell

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence…

— Wendell Berry

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

Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate…

— Noam Chomsky

“Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily…

— Harry M. Caudill

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

— Thomas Merton

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

— Daniel Boone

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

— Jeri Ryan

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

— Shawn Kemp

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

— Mitch McConnell

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

— Josh Hopkins

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

— Abraham Lincoln

All the Kentucky guys are all close. We all wish the best for each other. Kentucky's a brotherhood.

— Tyler Herro

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

— Sonny Landham

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

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

— Jerry Tarkanian

The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is…better defending

— Tubby Smith

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

— Neal Stephenson

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

— W. Earl Brown

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

— Matt Gonzalez

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

— Maxine Cheshire