Quotes and Sayings about Kentucky
"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Time, Enemy, Kentucky)
"Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Home, Life, Family, Determination, Fortune, Paradise, Kentucky, Risk)
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Day, Kentucky)
"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Family, Honor, Kentucky, Land, Living, Property)
"The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Family, Kentucky)
"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Community, Kentucky)
"I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things."
- Jack L. Chalker
(Related: Kentucky)
"As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point."
- Ben Chandler
(Related: Connection, Day, Kentucky, Public, Years)
"At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river."
- Bob Edwards
(Related: Kentucky, Right)
"We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity."
- Ernie Fletcher
(Related: People, Opportunity, Fact, Tax, Income, Kentucky, Will)
"My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here."
- Ernie Fletcher
(Related: Life, Quality, People, Opportunity, Vision, Kentucky)
"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."
- Sue Grafton
(Related: College, Kentucky, State, Summer, Teachers, University, Years)
"Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Fans, Kentucky)
"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Basketball, Being, Fact, Kentucky, Mind, Wind)
"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: Winning, Crisis, Kentucky)
"I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate."
- Sonny Landham
(Related: People, Kentucky, Running)
"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have."
- Sonny Landham
(Related: Building, Kentucky, Needs)
"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
(Related: Kentucky)
"Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Strategy, Awareness, Country, Crisis, Kentucky, Prevention, Production, Public)
"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Growing up, Kentucky)
"After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Hurt, Kentucky, Therapy)
"Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that."
- Pee Wee Reese
(Related: Hell, Kentucky)
"I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11."
- Jeri Ryan
(Related: Time, Kentucky)
"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
- John Shimkus
(Related: Debate, Hospitals, Kentucky)
"If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54."
- Bill Shoemaker
(Related: Kentucky)
"Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Constitution, Kentucky, Poor, Property, State)