28 Quotes About Nashville

Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than had occurred earlier. The war was not over for Hood's army as it came through the gates of Camp Douglas. Another struggle for survival was beginning, and the odds of success were no better in Chicago than at Franklin or Nashville.

Wilson Packard had always thought Hank Barnett would make a fine corpse. He’d thought so since childhood, and it looked like this might finally be the day for it. Maybe not as good as yesterday, but better than tomorrow.

The sexiest thing about a man is the way he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.

And maybe her eyes still worked regardless of the shape she took, and she could see everything. And maybe somehow she broke through the atmosphere and was sent somewhere out in space where she couldn’t tell if her eyes were opened or closed.

They only want to be there while you’re on top, and when you haven’t gotten a gig in a while and you don’t know how you’re going to pay your rent at the end of the month and the glamor they thought they signed up for is gone, they’re walking out the door, leaving you to pick up the pieces.

All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking.

It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.

Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.