Alabama Moon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In his dark story collection Poachers, Tom Franklin, who once worked in a grit factory, offers the sad and sorry lives of people stuck in the back-waters of the Alabama River, who tend to subsist on a steady diet of moon-shine and stale crackers.

Nancy Pearl

#3. He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here.

Roni Loren

#4. Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Mary Cassatt

#5. A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Caitlin Moran

#7. I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.

David Edwards

#8. We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Bertolt Brecht

#10. Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.

Madeline Miller

#11. One can never have too many librarian friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini