Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

- Jesse Stuart

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

- Jesse Stuart

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

- Jesse Stuart

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

- Jesse Stuart

I am a farmer singing at the plow

- Jesse Stuart