Tennessee Quotes · Page 3

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

— Kelsey Brickl

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

— Phil Bredesen

I don't think I knew what 'Vogue' was as a child. I grew up in a little town in Tennessee, so that…

— Huda Kattan

“...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...”

— Kellie Elmore

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

— Lucy Hale

Jelly Roll from Tennessee, so I automatically feel him, you know what I'm saying?

— GloRilla

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City,…

— Hank Williams, Jr

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

— Malik Jackson

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee,…

— Miley Cyrus

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought…

— Dolly Parton

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but…

— Jake T. Austin

I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural…

— Hilton Als

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

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being…

— Pat Summitt

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

— Frank Norris

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

— Anonymous

I don't know Greg Schiano personally. But what I do know is Bill Belichick has vouched for him. OK? Urban Meyer has…

— Booger McFarland

I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and…

— Miley Cyrus

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not…

— Sandra Steingraber

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the…

— Wilma Rudolph

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and…

— Andrew Solomon

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's…

— Rodney Atkins

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama…

— DJ Qualls

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of…

— Reese Witherspoon

My favorite player was Peyton Manning. That's why I wear 16. It was his number at Tennessee.

— Trevor Lawrence

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

— Paul Simon

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

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

— Jamal Lewis

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

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

— Booger McFarland

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

New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you,…

— Julie Smith

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 met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and…

— Eli Wallach

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in…

— Northrop Frye

I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that…

— Coleman Barks