Tennessee Quotes - Page 2

• My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

  Phil Bredesen

  Children, Believe, Commitment

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• In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

  Howard Baker

  Conservative, Bolsheviks, American Politics

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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 on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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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 confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Believe, Southern

  Andrew Johnson (1860). “The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States ... December 18 and 19, 1860”

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• Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

  Rosemary Daniell

  Dream, Lovely, Rivals

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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 and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Community

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• Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

  Gary Danielson

  Mistake, Team, Florida

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• I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

  Tim McGraw

  Running, Kids, Artist

  "The Clinton Of Country". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. September 13, 2004.

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• When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

  Woody Allen

  Tragedy, Dramatic, Young

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Men, Differences

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Football, Play, Loner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

  Dave Barry

  God, Water, Stupidity

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• I placed a jar in Tennessee,
  And round it was, upon a hill.
  It made the slovenly wilderness
  Surround that hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Nature, Jars

  "Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)

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• Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

  Edmund White

  Writing, Two, Say Anything

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

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• There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.

  Megan Fox

  Baby, Couple, White

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Play, Symphony, People

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2014.

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• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

  John Jay Hooker

  Election Process, Effort, Challenges

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• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Children, Years, Next

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Essence, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.249, Knopf

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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 in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Zach Wamp

  Money, Winning, People

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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 I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

  Mel Tillis

  Song, Florida, Cities

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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. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Change, Years, White

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

  William Faulkner

  Mexico, Memphis, Hotel

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.11, Modern Library

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• I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Jobs, School, Equal Pay

  "Gil Scott-Heron Rhymes a Revolution". Interview With Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 21, 2008.

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• I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  Rodney Atkins

  Heart, Opportunity, Iowa

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