#kentucky

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #kentucky




Surely slavery was not tolerated in Kentucky, surely not in Lexington, which the captain so often called the Beautiful City. Everything would be different once they arrived in paradise. There'd be neither black nor white--there'd be people. Cynthia had been neither schooled nor conditioned for prejudice.


David Dick


#lexington #beauty

I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a life-long Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.


Hunter S. Thompson


#kentucky #life

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


#economy

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


#commandments #constitution #display #doing #flawed

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.


Steve Zahn


#civil #civil war #farm #general #history

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.


Matt Gonzalez


#derby #dollars #few #going #guess

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


#college #freshman #freshman year #graduated #i

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


#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

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


Sonny Landham


#am #governor #i #i am #kentucky

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


#did #dinner #grew #grow #grow up