Alabama Quotes - Page 5

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  Randy Owen

  Country, Names, Band

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• In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

  Troy King

  Australia, Justice, Would Be

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• Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Growing Up, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

  John Lewis

  Average Joe, Poor, Grew Up

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

  Jimmy Wales

  Growing Up, War, Moon

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones." Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord." It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

  John Shelby Spong

  Morning, Children, Crazy

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Mother

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• I went to law school at Alabama and I grew up a loyal Auburn fan. I'm one of the few that wrestles with those issues sometimes, but we're really proud of them. Like the University of Alabama has almost doubled its enrollment.

  Jeff Sessions

  School, Law, Issues

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

  Jeff Sessions

  School, Class, People

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• Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

  Jeff Sessions

  Pockets, Republican, Democrat

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• People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Dad, Father

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

  Mo Brooks

  Numbers, Leaving, Arizona

  "Removing Illegal Immigrants: The Key to Job Creation?". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. October 3, 2011.

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• How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

  Yelawolf

  Weed, Parent, Illegal

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• Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Hands, White

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• The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.

  Roy Moore

  Order, Justice, Judging

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• Her family had no such ties. She was able to forge her way into that world. And then to those people, the idea of going to Arkansas, if you're gonna stop and think about it, you don't do it. It wouldn't have made any sense. It's like going to Mississippi. Why would you go to Alabama? You wouldn't go. You wouldn't... That would be throwing your life away! [...] For some reason, Hillary Clinton wanted to latch on to this guy [Bill Clinton] - and for some reason, this guy wanted her to latch on to him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Ties, Ideas

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!

  Betty Lynn

  Years, House, Want

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• There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Yale, President

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• I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

  Condoleezza Rice

  White, Denver, Born

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Hip Hop, Needs

  Source: www.rapireland.com

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• What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence.

  Michel Martin

  Kings, Home, Might

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

  Mike Rogers

  Senior, June, Drug

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• Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Nominations, Republican, Democrat

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

  Mike Rogers

  Aggravation, Enforcement, Degradation

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• Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

  Gucci Mane

  Humble, House, Littles

  "Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy - And Productive As Ever". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, Frannie Kelley, kuaf.com. December 21, 2016.

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