Tennessee Quotes

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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.

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

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

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

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.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

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

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

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

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.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

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

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.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

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.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

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

People go to the movies instead of moving.

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

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

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

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.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

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.

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.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.