Alabama Quotes - Page 2

• The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

  Artur Davis

  Progress, Racist, Steps

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  Bear Bryant

  School, Player, Signing

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Heart, Long, Truth Is

  "Fictional character: Melanie Carmichael". "Sweet Home Alabama", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  Octavia Spencer

  People, Church, Who We Are

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

  Bo Jackson

  Next Day, One Day, Taught

  Interview with Billy Worrell, whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com.

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• Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

  Pat Dye

  Sports, Football, College

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• The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

  Allen West

  Father, Commitment, Sacrifice

  "Rep. Allen West To Black Voters: Give GOP A Chance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 27, 2012.

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• When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town of Troy, or visit Montgomery or Tuskegee, I would see the signs that said, "WHITE MEN - COLORED MEN," "WHITE WOMEN - COLORED WOMEN."And I would come home and say to my mother and father and my grandparents, "Why?" "Why this?" "Why that?" And they would just tell me, "That's just the way it is! Don't get in the way. Don't cause trouble."

  John Lewis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

  Adam McKay

  Talking, People, Mouths

  "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Boys, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

  Kid Rock

  Simple, People, Southern

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• Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Play, Dixie

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• I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

  Bob Riley

  Change, Kids, Opportunity

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

  John Green

  People, Bad Things

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• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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• I live in rural Alabama, and it's very conservative. I've had one guy say 'you can't be a minister and a DJ at the same time'. I thought 'how does someone get to choose what God has assigned me to do - God has given me a ministry.

  Robert Hood

  Guy, Doe, Ministry

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

  Troy King

  Death Penalty, Lost, States

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• Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.

  Jason Aldean

  Fun, Party, Rivers

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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, Georgia

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

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• This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

  Paul Washer

  Country, Balls, Salvation

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• It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Ivory, Hard

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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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• 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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