Top 296 Tennessee Quotes & Sayings

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

I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.

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

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.

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

But I remember back in 1998, the year after Peyton Manning left Tennessee, a lot of people didn't really give Tennessee a chance. There was a lesser-known Tee Martin playing quarterback. He ended up leading them to a national championship in 1998 the year after Peyton left.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

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

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

At Tennessee, I said I can't wait to beat Florida in the Swamp and sing 'Rocky Top' all night long. The thing at Tennessee I felt was that there needed to be energy in the program immediately. Two of the last three years there, they were 5-7. Urban Meyer and Nick Saban were at all-time highs. I felt like the fan base and players needed confidence.

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

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

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

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

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

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

I have a lot of love for Tennessee.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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.

It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure.

Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education.

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.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

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

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

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

A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.

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

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

There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

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

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

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

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

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

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

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

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton... I wouldn't mind seeing Dolly Parton. She's from Tennessee, I'm from Tennessee.

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

Knox County, Tennessee, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

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

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

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

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

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

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

When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

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

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.