Georgia Quotes - Page 2

• I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Letting Go, Flower, Learning

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

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• Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Time

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait

  Blake Clark

  Inspiration, Names, Bait

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• Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Theatre

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• Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.

  Roy Barnes

  Today, Laurels, Position

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• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Night

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Journey, Years

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• For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

  Anne Edwards

  Home, Winning, Atlanta

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• King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, White, Born

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• This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, Winning, Iraq

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Marijuana, Want

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• So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

  Michael Stipe

  Southern, East, Band

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• In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

  Roy Clarke

  Country, Strong, Team

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• Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

  Paul Weyrich

  Issues, Judging, Voters

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• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Country, Believe, Government

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• Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Eight, Years

  "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, Peanuts, Farmers

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

  Roy Barnes

  Quiet, States, Workers

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• Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pigs, Order, Ham

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.52, Macmillan

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• 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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