Top 296 Tennessee Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Obviously I love Nashville, I love Tennessee. It's a great organization to play for.
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.
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.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!
I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
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.
Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.
I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.
The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.
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.
I'm running because it is past time that Tennessee's 4th Congressional District be represented by someone who is a true conservative and who represents who we are in the Volunteer State.
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.
One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.
Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.
I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.
Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a young woman.
The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
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.
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.
I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
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.
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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.
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.
The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.
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 was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.
When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.'
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 grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, born and raised. It was hard. I stayed with my momma, then I ended up moving with my daddy.
I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.
I don't think I knew what 'Vogue' was as a child. I grew up in a little town in Tennessee, so that wasn't something we ever would think of.
Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, 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.
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.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.
My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.
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'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.