Tennessee Quotes - Page 6

• New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit.

  Julie Smith

  Heart, New Orleans, August

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

  Roy Acuff

  Done, Defeat, Democrat

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

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

  George Strait

  Relationship, Texas, Hats

  Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas, Album: Ocean Front Property

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• There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Horse, Fun, Passion

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• Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Art, Home

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Bookstores

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• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, Years, Intense Training

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  New York, Cities, Evil

  FaceBook post by Hank Williams Jr. from Dec 15, 2011

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• 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.

  Tim McGraw

  Kings, Calling, Way

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

  Marty Stuart

  Rocks, Hillbilly

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Ideas, Choices

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• 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.

  Sebastian Stan

  Actors, Eras, Obsession

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.

  Pat Forde

  Monday, Home, Emotional

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• 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.

  Peyton Manning

  Sports, Pride, Player

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• When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

  Mae West

  Thinking, Theater, Playwright

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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• I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much.

  John Muir

  Journey, Florida, Kentucky

  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.10, e-artnow

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• You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.

  Bruce Miller

  Mean, Sunday, Fire

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• I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Opportunity, Guy

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, Iowa, People

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Desperate Situations, People, Broken

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• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Angel, Glasses

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Kind, Ancient

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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