Georgia Quotes - Page 5

• Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

  Andy Lally

  People, Finals, Video

  Interview with Shane and Sia Barbi, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.

  Bill Goldberg

  Eye, Domes, Movement

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Cutting, Yankees

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Law, Ballots, Access

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• I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.

  Jason Aldean

  Jeans, Teens, Clubs

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• At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

  Erk Russell

  Football, College, Southern

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

  Alice Walker

  Memories, Grandmother, Virginia

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Golf, Balls, Swamps

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

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• I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

  Louise Rennison

  Boys, Thongs, Snogging

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Names, Looks, I Smile

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• My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?

  Louise Rennison

  Girl, Cousin, Boys

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• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

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

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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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• When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teacher, School, Years

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• After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

  Sarah Palin

  Army, Russia, Ukraine

  “Palin on Ukraine: I called it” by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• I hate these people, the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere, for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.

  Fred Dryer

  Hate, California, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Children, Gun

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Food

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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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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• Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sweet, Horse

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club

  Kate Jacobs

  Inspirational, Friday, Jobs

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• I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Art, Light

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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