Tennessee Quotes
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
Flannery O'Connor -
Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
Carlene Carter
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson -
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy -
We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.
Tommy Aldridge Whitesnake -
It feels good anytime you beat Texas and Tennessee. Wins over those great coaches are very special.
C. Vivian Stringer -
I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
Valerie June -
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.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.
Malik Jackson -
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 -
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Elia Kazan -
You only go to Tennessee if you're a great player and want to compete at the highest level and want to get pushed. There's a certain kind of mentality that's there. This is a different kind of mindset that's been really important at the championship level.
C. T. Vivian -
I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.
Mo Brooks -
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school. Both sets of my grandparents grew up in rural Mississippi and brought a lot of agrarian knowledge to Memphis, which is an urban center in the South. Both sets had amazing backyard gardens. My paternal grandfather, practically every inch of available space was green.
Bryant Terry
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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 -
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
Tina Turner