Tennessee Quotes
130 quotes by 109 authors
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart.…
— Rodney Atkins
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
— James Agee
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Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out…
— Jason Aldean
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I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
— Kenny Chesney
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in…
— Justin Timberlake
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You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,…
— Les Miles
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level…
— H. L. Mencken
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One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by…
— Charlie Weis
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Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy…
— Emilia Clarke
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When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats…
— Eric Clapton
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I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.
— Reese Witherspoon
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I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
— Denzel Washington
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They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.
— Tex Ritter
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I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T,…
— Lane Kiffin
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Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are…
— Frank Norris
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I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the…
— Mo Brooks
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... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock…
— Brian Setzer
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Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
— Albert Sidney Johnston
Who Wrote These Tennessee Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 130 Tennessee Quotes, led by these top contributors: