Georgia Quotes - Page 3

• There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

  Larry Munson

  Loyalty, Envy, Tradition

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• There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

  Vano Merabishvili

  Revolution, Chance

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• The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Done, Savannah

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• A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

  Travis Tritt

  Brother, Home, Talking

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• I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Cowboy, People

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, 2017.do512.com.

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• A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Men, Jail

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• Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Doors, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].

  Katie Melua

  Silly, Mean, Shoes

  "Georgia Peach" by Katrina Lobley, www.smh.com.au. May 27, 2005.

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• To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furnish loading for many camels. The use made of it is not for the purpose of food, but as an unguent for the cure of cutaneous distempers in men and cattle, as well as other complaints, and it is also good for burning. In the surrounding country no other oil is used in their lamps, and people come from distant parts to procure it.

  Marco Polo

  Country, Lying, Science

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• Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Feels, Investors, Comfortable

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• No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.

  Rob Hawthorne

  Football, Games, Switzerland

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• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

  Richard Schiff

  War, America, Iran

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Ukraine, Agreement, Azerbaijan

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• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  Wayne Knight

  Football, Team, Mascots

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, People, Alabama

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it.

  Jack Anderson

  Cancer, Dark, Support

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• I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that's a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is 'rate, hike.' We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that's in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They're all good looking and they're all rich. And folks, you just can't beat that and you just can't beat Georgia Southern. And you ain't seen nothin yet!

  Erk Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Weekend

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

  Tony Hale

  Beach, Redneck, Thinking

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• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  Nancy Grace

  School, Tiny, Study

  "The Golden State Warriors, Contenders Or Pretenders: The 'Meet The Press' Roundtable". "Meet the Press: NBA Edition" with Chuck Todd, theclassical.org. January 26, 2015.

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• I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

  Elton John

  Sweet, Boys, Piano

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• I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!

  Pauley Perrette

  Mean, Kids, Rights

  Source: www.avclub.com

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