The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for July 27-Aug. 1:
“The auditor walked out of our building after that first meeting and told his assistant that in two years the building would be vacant and we would be out of business.”
– TSSAA Executive Director Bernard Childress on the state of the organization five years ago, when its finances were on the brink of collapse after a ruinously expensive lawsuit
“It’s like a great masterpiece that’s been lost.”
– Ronda Bruckno, of Mentone, Ala., on the impact to the community from the destruction by fire of the 130-year-old Mentone Springs Hotel five months ago