Kentucky Quotes - Page 2

• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Texas, Constitution, Poor

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• Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Nice, Kids, Marijuana

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• And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

  Ashley Judd

  Basketball, Wind, Mind

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• Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Winning, Two

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

  Loretta Lynn

  Growing Up, Gun, Used

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• The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

  Sonny Landham

  Needs, Building, Judicial System

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• I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

  Sonny Landham

  Running, People, Governors

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• But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

  John Shimkus

  Illinois, Drug, Goes On

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• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Louisiana, Mayors, Honorary

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• If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Winning, Masters, I Can

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• Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Jelly, Jam

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• Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Eye, Columnists, Seeing

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• Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Joy, World, Ugly

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• I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.907, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde freckled girl from Kentucky.

  Maggie Lawson

  Girl, Blonde, Vixens

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

  George Rogers Clark

  Names, Hands, Brave

  "Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.

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• 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

  Years, World, Want

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Appreciate, Heritage, Virtue

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• Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

  Billy Packer

  Want, Clock

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• To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

  Bob Lewis

  Horse, Winning, Goal

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• There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!

  Verne Lundquist

  World, Uncertain

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• One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

  Michael Shannon

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending

  Tubby Smith

  Home, Court, Tricks

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