Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bunning

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Chuck D.

He really brightened the whole room up. Even with the situation he's in, he still worries about the team more than himself. Ken is a strong man. He's going to go out there and do whatever it takes to get back.

John Catsimatidis

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

Ginny Brown-Waite

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.

Jermaine Dye

He's just been off the charts,'' Oakland manager Ken Macha said,

Jack L. Chalker

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

It may not be the usual way of doing it. In fact, I know it's not. But if we're going to run in the Kentucky Derby, I want a live horse, not one that's used up.

Rudy Gay

It?s going to be a different type of game. Kentucky has size and they have versatility.

Patton Oswalt

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

Pamela Anderson

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

Noam Chomsky

Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in Kentucky? They are producing a lethal substance far more dangerous than cocaine. More Colombians die from tobacco-related illnesses than Americans die from cocaine. Of course, Colombia has no right to do that.

Margo Martindale

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

Mark Twain

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

Irvin S. Cobb

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

Geraldine Ferraro

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

Rand Paul

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests,

Neal Stephenson

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

Verne Lundquist

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

Richard Leakey

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Wendell Berry

It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its future water, is deteriorating rapidly because of strip mining, because of bad farming, because of industrial and agricultural pollutants, because of urban sewage. It is deteriorating, that is to say, because almost nobody cares, or cares to know, where water comes from, so long as it keeps coming.

Will Oldham

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.

Ralph Fiennes

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Ralph Fiennes

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

Vinton Cerf

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.

Thomas Merton

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

Thomas Woods

If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

Sonny Landham

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.