Alabama Quotes - Page 5

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

Tom Hanks

Thinking, Sea, Needs

"Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

Dominique Easley

Football, New York, Growing Up

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Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

William Christopher Handy

Home, Wind, Snakes

William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Summer, Self, Goal

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They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.

Jennifer Estep

Sweet, Party, Home

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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

Harper Lee

Want, Interviews, March

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As far as heroes thorough the years, I’d say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

Luke Bryan

Hero, Years, Influence

"Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

John Henrik Clarke

Son, People, Southern

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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

John Henrik Clarke

Teaching, Land, Daddy

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I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

Dakota Fanning

Sweet, Home, Boys

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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Bob Feller

Gun, Russia, Class

"For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Bob Feller

Hero, Home, Gun

"Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller

Teamwork, Baseball, Men

"Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

Shelby Lynne

Country, Woods, Raised

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By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Lionel Richie

Country, Growing Up, Pie

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I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

Kid Rock

Cutting, People, Unions

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Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

Kathy Reichs

Reality, Parent, Understanding

Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

Gary Danielson

Moving, Doctors, Florida

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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Bertolt Brecht

Moon, Bye, Mama

Bertolt Brecht (1990). “Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :”, Methuen

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A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law, Minorities, Unjust

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.61, Beacon Press

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There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

Joshilyn Jackson

Jesus, School, Truck

Joshilyn Jackson (2010). “Backseat Saints”, p.227, Hachette UK

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At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Bear Bryant

Team, Winning, Player

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My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

David Alan Grier

Growing Up, Grandmother, America

"David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.

Barack Obama

Country, Home, Bridges

Barack Obama's speech in Selma, Alabama, as reported in CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2007.

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President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rights, Voting, President

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