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Quotes About Kentucky

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.
~ Sturgill Simpson
Health care should not be a partisan issue. Because health care is a Kentucky issue.
~ Andy Beshear
Growing up, I remember taking trips with my family to Kentucky Lake and visiting Lake Cumberland, and camping with friends at Red River Gorge.
~ Andy Beshear
I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.
~ Amy McGrath
Frankly, voters in Kentucky really don't like both political parties.
~ Amy McGrath
You know, I would say that I understand why the voters in Kentucky voted for Donald Trump. They are tired of the swamp. They are tired of the dysfunction.
~ Amy McGrath
I am genuinely sorry that my attendance at an event which, other than my comments, appears to have primarily involved a discussion of cockfighting, has created concern on the part of many Kentucky voters.
~ Matt Bevin
I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state.
~ Mitch McConnell
Cassius Marcellus Clay of Lexington, Kentucky, founder of the antislavery newspaper The True American, commanded a crowd of about fifteen hundred in a grove in Springfield. Lincoln, accompanied by his friend Orville Browning, was there. "Whittling sticks, as he lay on the turf, Lincoln gave me a most patient hearing," Clay recalled. "I shall never forget his long, ungainly form, and his ever sad and homely face.
~ Jon Meacham
My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.
~ Rex Chapman
Why not relent, marry a reformed hooker, buy some old furniture and a ping-pong table, become a Cornhusker fan, open a dusty bottle of Kentucky straight, turn on the Rockies game, and enjoy the brief time you have left on this weird planet of sorrow?
~ Poe Ballantine
Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.
~ Amy McGrath
Prioritizing our children also means prioritizing their teachers. If Kentucky is to compete nationally - not to mention with our neighbors - we need to pay our teachers a living wage.
~ Andy Beshear
I respect everybody who goes to Kentucky. You know that once you sign with Kentucky, the same thing with Duke. You know each and every night it's going to be a team's Super Bowl. You're going to get their best.
~ Devin Booker
This argument made logical and legal sense to almost everyone except the Virginians, who were accustomed to thinking of the Old Dominion as an empire of its own, with the Ohio Valley and the Kentucky as extensions of greater Virginia. Even James Madison, the most nonprovincial member of the Virginia delegation, felt obliged to defend his state's claim to Kentucky's border, though he opposed the threat of the Virginia legislature to revoke its previous cession.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
The antiquarians were correct in this, that Eastern Kentucky has a distinctive voice, one that does derive from Britain and Ireland but whose genius was too hardy to be tamed and has flowered at the Grand Ole Opry.
~ Darcy O'Brien
You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States.
~ Tim Cook
The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.
~ Matt Bevin
When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family, they began to rely on my wallet.
~ Wilson Pickett
I've loved every moment at Kentucky with my coaches and support staff.
~ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
~ Thomas Merton
I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home
~ Happy Chandler
If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!
~ Josh Hopkins