State Of Tennessee Quotes

#1. 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

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

Stephen Ambrose

#3. I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears ... to my constant regret.

Fritz Lang

#4. You make me drop things
Like all the plans I had for a life without you

Chris Cornell

#5. If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.

Auliq Ice

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

Flannery O'Connor

#7. Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

Jefferson Smith

#8. Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way."
Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?"
Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.

Tracy Anne Warren

#9. The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

Dennis Wilson

#10. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.

Anonymous

#11. Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#12. The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually ... but I can't really do it.

Thom Yorke

#13. 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.

Lamar Alexander

#14. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#16. And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

J.K. Rowling

#17. Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Plato

#18. A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Russell Baker

#19. Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

Khalil Gibran

#20. Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. 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.

Chad Ochocinco

#22. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Dillon Burroughs