Tennessee Quotes · Page 4

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

— Kelsea Ballerini

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

— Wallace Stevens

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

— William Faulkner

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

— Andrea Martin

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

— Lucy Hale

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

— Kellie Elmore

“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

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

— Ricardo Rossello

In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to…

— Matt Cain

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

— Chad Ochocinco

Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a…

— Zawe Ashton

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'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to…

— Phil Roe

When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more…

— Valerie June

A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So…

— Lane Kiffin

My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this…

— Kenny Chesney

Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around…

— Jason Aldean

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get…

— Chris Parnell

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We…

— Louis Stokes

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister…

— Huda Kattan

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…

— Lorrie Moore

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

— Brian Setzer

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 love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

— Matthew Bourne

“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Trevor Lawrence

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

— Malik Jackson

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

— Kenny Chesney

The state of Tennessee is where I started off my MMA career.

— Ovince Saint Preux

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

— GloRilla

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

— J. B. Smoove

I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. I grew up in Antioch; it's like on the south end of Nashville.

— Jelly Roll

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Tina Turner

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

— George Strait

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.

— Richard Hatch

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

— Miley Cyrus

Hey, are you from tennessee? cause your the only 10 I see… ;)

— $Teady

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

— Paul Mooney