Top 150 Kentucky Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Kentucky Quotes from famous people such as Darci Lynne Farmer, Tom Perez, Julius Randle, Daniel Cameron, Mitchell Zuckoff, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I sing ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky.’ It’s a country song. It’s one of my favorites to sing.
Darci Lynne Farmer
I’ve talked to several CEOs – from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more – who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
Tom Perez
In the state of Kentucky, all they know is Kentucky basketball. It’s the same thing in L.A. They love the Lakers and they expect nothing less but championships.
Julius Randle
I grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Harden County, which is not too far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Cameron
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.
Mitchell Zuckoff
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
Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.
Krystal Ball
I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there’s lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that’s a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Chris Stapleton
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
Kentucky HEALTH will allow us to continue to provide expanded Medicaid coverage. But unlike the current Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, it will do so in a fiscally responsible manner that ensures better health outcomes for recipients.
Matt Bevin
My grandparents were from Kentucky – I’m related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
Dennis Hopper
Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.
Kim Edwards
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
Bill Shoemaker
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
I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky.
Amy McGrath
Fifty-four years ago, I was an 8-year-old boy living in rural Kentucky when the schools were desegregated. I walked into a white school where I was not wanted nor welcomed.
Dwane Casey
I had fallen in love with Cherry as a junior in high school. When I discovered she was going to go to Auburn, I was vacillating between Alabama and Kentucky because of Babe. I eliminated Kentucky because I wanted to be as close to Auburn as I could, and Tuscaloosa is a lot closer than Lexington is.
Bart Starr
My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money.
Dakota Meyer
History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia or Kentucky – all states that his boss won twice – then he’d have won the election anyway.
Steve Kornacki
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
If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana – what are you talking about? You’re always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.
Ben Howland
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 and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
Hunter S. Thompson
Well, being at a big school, I had to perform every night. I had to deal with a lot of fans, media stuff, interactions, relationships, you know, just to build myself and show how much I care about Kentucky.
Jamal Murray
I believe Kentucky has a big, bright future, with more good-paying jobs and opportunities for families to get ahead in every single one of our 120 counties.
Andy Beshear
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.
Loretta Lynn
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
Bobbie Ann Mason
I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.
Kevin Olusola
I shy away from celebrity status because I don’t want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to partake in the events and the festivities of the Kentucky Derby, and that was a huge honor.
Teddy Bridgewater
Matt Bevin has made it clear: he cares more about out-of-state CEOs than Kentucky’s working families.
Andy Beshear
I did some really bad plays at a children’s theater in Kentucky where I’m from and went from there.
Miles Heizer
When Billy Ray and I first got married, we lived in an A-frame house in Kentucky, and I didn’t even know you could get drapes made – I used to get drapes from Dillard’s. Once I hired a designer to help decorate that house was when I discovered a passion for designing.
Tish Cyrus
I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commer

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.
Timothy Simons
Our approach to doing right by Kentucky’s veterans starts by focusing on expanding job opportunities, especially in agritech and infrastructure development – two areas where Kentucky can thrive.
Andy Beshear
While Matt Bevin helps insiders, wealthy CEOs and special interests, I’m running to be a governor who works for Kentucky families who are still struggling to get ahead.
Andy Beshear
One of the reasons I’m an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn’t athletic and didn’t have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
Michael Shannon
All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don’t eat because they’re sour and bitter. The reason why you don’t eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ weren’t actually from Hazard, Kentucky.
Tyler Childers
I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.
Miles Heizer
I call it, ‘The Kentucky Effect.’ Guys from Kentucky are usually drafted higher, and their shoe contracts are worth more. They’re in more demand overall because they played here.
John Calipari
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver – they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby – and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
Christopher Buckley
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
I’ve always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.
Sturgill Simpson
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything… coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can’t afford it, you can get a scholarship.
Jess Weixler
They want it all – all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don’t coach at Kentucky if you can’t accept that.
John Calipari
One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.
Frank Vogel
I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.
John Calipari
It’s an honor to have the support and trust of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO.
Andy Beshear
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
I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and ’87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.
Rex Chapman
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
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
At Kentucky, that was my job – coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor – no hesitations. Just go right into my shot – don’t focus on the defender.
Jamal Murray
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