Tennessee Quotes

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
Miley Cyrus

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

Everything, Small, Normal

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
Jon Meacham

Memories, Childhood, Terrible

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

Said, Show, Becoming

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

Music, Fun, Woman

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

Men, Country, State

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

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

Business, Everybody, Knew

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

Beautiful, Common, Lots

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.
Gail Simmons

Amazing, America, Farm

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

Music, Down, Since

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Eli Wallach

Wife, After, She

I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.
Lucy Hale

Age, Lie, Everyone

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.
Lucy Hale

Life, Time, Home

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

Mom, Country, Lives

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
St. Vincent

Loved, Kid, Lusty

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

Time, Woman, Another

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

Car, Heart, Help

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, God, Legal

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

School, Black, Three

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

Town, Border, Virginia

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
John Jay Hooker

Political, Democratic, Side

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

Money, Corruption, Last

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

Time, Ideas, Hear

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
Andrea Martin

Done, Challenge, Broadway

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.
Louis Stokes

Him, Down, Fact

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, Training, Old

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy

Knew, River, Boats

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

War, Ground, Clearly

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.
Phil Bredesen

Important, Wonderful, Everyone

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