Alabama Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.

  Josh Duhamel

  Girl, Children, Moving

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Father, Party, Crow

  "Transcript of Condi Rice's Convention Speech". ABC NEWS, abcnews.go.com.

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• I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

  Patty Murray

  Challenges, Lines, Building

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• It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

  Joseph Lowery

  Virginia, Florida, Texas

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

  Nick Saban

  Miami Dolphins, Dolphins, Coaches

  "Record setting coach revered, reviled and ready for the game of the year" by Steve Hummer, www.cnn.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

  John Shelton Reed

  Heart, Dixie, Pieces

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• Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Men, Two, Years

  "Lilly Ledbetter DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

  Winfrey Sanderson

  Basketball, Games, Sea

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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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• That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

  Bill Hicks

  Depressing, Facts, Starting

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• I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

  Pat Dye

  Georgia, Beats, Know How

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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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• 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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• 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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• The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

  Jason Aldean

  Running, Rain, Thinking

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