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Memphis Quotes

Steve Cropper quote: "Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything..."
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. Steve Cropper
Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn. Laurell K. Hamilton
Charles Moore quote: "Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical..."
Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in. Charles Moore
An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again -Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966) Bob Dylan
Priscilla Presley quote: "She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I..."
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. Priscilla Presley
Elvis Presley quote: "When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just..."
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. Elvis Presley
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. Elvis Costello
The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that. Jerry West
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. Johnny Cash
In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian Baptist Church's fifteen thousand members to withdraw their funds from white-woned banks and transfer them to either the black-owned Carver Federal Savings in Harlem or the black-owned Tri-State Bank in Memphis, Tennessee (108). Manning Marable
F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vastly superior to Brodnax and Speer. His sidekicks at the moment are W. Harper Whittenson, an arrogant little snot who will, thankfully, leave Memphis and practice with a mega-firm in Dallas; J. Townsend Gross, who has accepted a position with another huge firm; and James Straybeck, a sometimes friendly sort who's suffered three years of law school without an initial to place before his name or ... John Grisham
Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County. John Grisham
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With..."
No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me. Laurell K. Hamilton
It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me. Fannie Flagg
What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. Alice Walker

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