Kentucky Quotes

• The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Wrestling, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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

  Thomas Merton

  Chosen, Sanctification, Precise

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• If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Heart, Usa

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Aggravation, Rivers, Numbers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Long, Fans

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Heart, Blood

  Jesse Stuart (1975). “My World”, p.37, University Press of Kentucky

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• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  Daniel Boone

  Determination, Home, Risk

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.7, Applewood Books

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• If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

  Mark Twain

  Years, World, Ends

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• As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

  Ben Chandler

  Eight, Years, Issues

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• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Sue Grafton

  Summer, Teacher, College

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• After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Hurt, Airports

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• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Scotch Whisky, Competition

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• I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

  John Muir

  Memories, Cutting, Nursing

  John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever before beheld. They are broad and dense and bright green. In the leafy bowers and caves of their long branches dwell magnificent avenues of shade, and every tree seems to be blessed with a double portion of strong exulting life.

  John Muir

  Strong, Blessed, Long

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.14, e-artnow

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• Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sweet, Horse

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Opportunity, People, Vision

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Agriculture, Who We Are, Foundation

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Texas, Kansas, Hawaii

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• Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

  Daniel Boone

  Heaven, Kind

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• Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, War, Civilization

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

  Wendell Berry

  Order, Ifs And, Mountain

  "Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  Daniel Boone

  Rivers, Enemy, Yards

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.43

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• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  Pamela Anderson

  States, Cruelty, Monument

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• I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Growing Up, Dinner, Heat

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