Tennessee Quotes · Page 6

I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the…

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so…

— Megan Fox

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can…

— Marisha Pessl

When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.'

— Suranne Jones

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

— Roy Acuff

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

— Wallace Stevens

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

— Howard Baker

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing…

— Brian Setzer

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and,…

— John Leguizamo

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

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to…

— Annie E. Clark

I have a lot of love for Tennessee.

— Derrick Henry

You know, I'm from Tennessee, a flyover state.

— Bill Hagerty

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was…

— Lynn Nottage

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

— Pat Summitt

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

— J. B. Smoove

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

— Frank Norris

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

— Dave Barry

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

— DJ Qualls

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington,…

— Natalie Babbitt

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm…

— Rachel Boston

'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

Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or…

— Ricardo Rossello

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

— Gloria Swanson