Georgia Quotes - Page 5

• My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Iron, Sound

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Daughter, School, Snow

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tennessee, Hillbilly, States

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• What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Europe, Shows, Foreigners

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

  Jason Aldean

  Musical, Rich, States

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• I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Thinking, Nashville

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

  Alton Brown

  School, Doors, Video

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Dad, Rain

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• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Land

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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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• I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Nice, Pie

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mother, Father, Math

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• Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Growing Up, Kids

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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