Kentucky Quotes: top 68 famous quotes about Kentucky

Kentucky Quotes & Sayings

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I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. — Chris Stapleton

God has brought me to Kentucky ... the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification. — Thomas Merton

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. — Rand Paul

Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses. — Dennis Sharpe

Bounty hunting is illegal in Kentucky, Oregon, Illinois, and Wisconsin. — Bill O'Neill

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. — Jack L. Chalker

The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program. — John Calipari

The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation. — Greg Iles

Roger, he has a chain saw, I hissed
I am not going to die in Kentucky! — Morgan Matson

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. — Wendell Berry

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. — Neal Stephenson

There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky! — Verne Lundquist

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'! — Irvin S. Cobb

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing. — Patton Oswalt

Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows. — Ian Fleming

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. — Muhammad Ali

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work. — Dave Barry

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place. — Daniel Boone

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary. — George Rogers Clark

I might be from Kentucky, but I know that 'bless her heart' means 'fuck that bitch' in Southern. — Laura Kreitzer

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54. — Bill Shoemaker

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago. — Timothy Simons

On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. — Timothy Olyphant

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. — Irvin S. Cobb

Leaving the feasibility of testicular transplants alone for the moment, she said, "It was mostly my mistake. — Teri Anne Stanley

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything. — Jennifer Lawrence

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out! — Josh Hopkins

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. — Jeri Ryan

The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is ... better defending — Tubby Smith

You. Aren't you one of those Morgan boys? You must be the bad one. — Teri Anne Stanley

I'm not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde freckled girl from Kentucky. — Maggie Lawson

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. — Dorothea Dix

She held up the arrow again and threatened the bird. You do anything, ignite a single spark, and I'm having Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner. — Chanda Hahn

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. — Loretta Lynn

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone

Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle. — John Green

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation. — Jerry Tarkanian

Lexington is not big enough to have clubs with long lines, but at least they don't have velvet ropes. — Lynn S. Hightower

By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over. — Nerlens Noel

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson

She's Canadian!"
"Minnesotan," Anna said.
"Sugarplum, anything north of Kentucky's all Canada to us — Jamie Farrell

Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred. — Joe Torre

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character. — Josh Hopkins

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate. — Sonny Landham

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock — Billy Packer

Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel. — Douglas Coupland

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city. — Geraldine Ferraro

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey. — Andrew Jackson

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart

Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky. — Jay Leno

Lust was edging confusion for the lead. Good sense had fallen far behind. — Teri Anne Stanley

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you. — Margo Martindale

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working. — Ciara Bravo

The Boss will release the four horsemen." I swallowed hard. "I guess you're not talking about the Kentucky Derby kind of horsemen? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me. — Jesse Stuart

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them. — Micheal Punke

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests, — Rand Paul

Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle — Billy Packer

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued. — Ashley Judd

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. — George Clooney

How could Clay have said all that, smooth as Kentucky bourbon, and Mom just sitting there as if she'd already drunk the bottle... — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. — Hunter S. Thompson

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester. — Tucker Max

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind. — Mark Twain