Tennessee Quotes · Page 10

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I…

— Dolly Parton

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

— Miley Cyrus

I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running…

— Lane Kiffin

Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

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

— Tina Turner

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the…

— Mo Brooks

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years…

— Horton Foote

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

— Paul Mooney

I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto…

— Anthony Foxx

[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role…

— Rob Lowe

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

— Jamal Lewis

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up…

— Josh Turner

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was…

— Flannery O'Connor

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

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

— Andrea Martin

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

— Marty Stuart

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to…

— Shane Claiborne

“People might think folks in the South are nosey. Folks in the South don't ask questions to learn something; they ask to…

— Bill Peach

If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts…

— Woody Allen

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again.…

— Lucy Hale

I want to compete with the best - Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete,…

— Tate Reeves

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

— Stephen Ambrose

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

— H. L. Mencken

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

— Dolly Parton