Appalachian Fiction Quotes

#1. Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood.

Charles Dodd White

#2. You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.

Jason Jack Miller

#3. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Micheal Rivers

#4. There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Victor Hugo

#5. It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

Tony McCoy

#6. A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Greg Walden

#7. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#8. Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.

Jose Ferreira

#9. Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Victor Burgin

#10. I'm sure you have drawers overflowing with panties the ladies throw at the stage. We saw you guys play down at Mon Brewing a few times. Way to keep the Nineties alive.

Jason Jack Miller

#11. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Jason Jack Miller

#12. Here's how I'll tell you what I think - if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if I'm drinking a Snapple then you know I don't give a shit.

Jason Jack Miller

#13. You know me, I love lost causes.

Mort Sahl

#14. I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

John Hurt

#15. Walk like you know where you're going, and you will surely get there.

Mary Kathryn Johnson

#16. Something which can make us the same... is what do we use to put somebody in confusion and what does they use to put someone in confusion?

Deyth Banger

#17. Are you crazy?"
"Good grief. I can't be stuck here with that crazy guy." - from CHILLS On the Appalachian Trail

Bobbi Jean

#18. ...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#19. We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.

Sarah Sullivan

#21. Feeling is the secret.

Neville Goddard

#22. Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

Jason Jack Miller

#23. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us.

Jason Jack Miller

#24. Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

William Shakespeare

#25. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.

Micheal Rivers

#26. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Micheal Rivers

#27. There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe.

Susan Gabriel

#28. The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.

Adriana Trigiani

#29. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.

Jason Jack Miller

#30. Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

Jason Jack Miller

#31. Yeah, but a hellbender never dies. You ever see a dead one?

Jason Jack Miller

#32. Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.

Sharyn McCrumb

#33. The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.

Louisa May Alcott

#34. It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight?

Jason Jack Miller

#35. Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.

Jason Jack Miller

#36. Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Arthur Conan Doyle