Blood Quote by Jesse Stuart

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

— Thomas Merton

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people…

— Ernie Fletcher

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

— Margo Martindale

All the Kentucky guys are all close. We all wish the best for each other. Kentucky's a brotherhood.

— Tyler Herro

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

— Rodney Crowell

I was born in Kentucky and, while my family has deep roots there, I was an Air Force brat, and we followed my father…

— Gina Haspel

Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its…

— Larry L. King

I have deep family roots in Western Kentucky.

— Andy Beshear

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

— Mark Twain

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human…

— Edward Abbey

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

— Malcolm Gladwell