Tennessee Quotes

• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Mules, Wagons

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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 nature.

  Ann Patchett

  Persons, Loops, Oblivious

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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

  Mother, Father, Texas

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• Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

  J. B. Smoove

  Car, Breaking Down, Let Me

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• Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Dance, Country, Practice

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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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 and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

  Dolly Parton

  Christmas, Niece, Home

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• Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Helping, Vulnerable, Help Me

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• The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

  Ann Patchett

  August, Hot, Life Is

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Truth & Beauty: A Friendship”, p.6, Harper Collins

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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 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

  Frank Norris

  New York, Nashville, Cities

  Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society

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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 match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

  Jerry Lawler

  Littles, Rooms, Fans

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• This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Doe, Stories

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

  Jamal Lewis

  Opportunity, Play, Giving

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• Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Nashville, Play

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• Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

  Albert Sidney Johnston

  Horse, War, Rivers

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• If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

  Phil Bredesen

  Zero, War, Battlefields

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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 & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

  Brian Setzer

  Music, Rocks, Track

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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

  Country, Men, White Man

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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 with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.

  Jason Aldean

  Fun, Party, Rivers

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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

  Summer, Children, June

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.12, Penguin

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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 Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

  Katy Mixon

  People, Greek, Brecht

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 you feed the steak to the dog.

  Charles Kuralt

  Dog, Southern, Jugs

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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 brethren.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Men, Rights

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• I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

  William Christopher Handy

  Rivers, Boat

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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