Best Tennessee Quotes
130 Tennessee quotes by 107 unique authors
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
— William Christopher Handy
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Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern…
— Isham G. Harris
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I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other…
— Andrew Johnson
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then…
— Charles Kuralt
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I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a…
— Jerry Lawler
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I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.
— Jamal Lewis
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A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and…
— Unknown Author
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Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival…
— Rosemary Daniell
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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate…
— Bill Jenkins
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I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find…
— Pat Summitt
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Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
— William Faulkner
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I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died.…
— Wilma Rudolph
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But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so…
— Mel Tillis
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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or…
— Zach Wamp
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could…
— Rachel Boston
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces…
— Dolly Parton
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In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they…
— Sandra Steingraber
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Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical…
— John Lahr
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee…
— Northrop Frye
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by…
— Ann Patchett
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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was…
— Candace Parker
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We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something…
— Phil Bredesen
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When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am…
— Steven Curtis Chapman
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members…
— Bart Gordon
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