Appalachians Quotes

#1. Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.

Bill Bryson

#2. I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Lady Bird Johnson

#3. Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Hervey Allen

#5. And there is an earlier Wilson cycle, too, a billion years old, entrapped alongside the Appalachians: the Grenville, which rises to the surface in Central Park, New York, to remind us that the human and urban is no more than foam on the sea of the past.

Richard Fortey

#6. A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet ...

Frank Rizzo

#7. Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.

Susan Renee

#8. I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

Diane Ackerman

#9. If you even think about touching her, I swear to God I will rip your heart out. - Chayse Pierce

Jalpa Williby

#10. Because you are like that sky. Because I feel it so much that it breaks my heart ... I love you.

Natsuki Takaya

#11. I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

Frantz Fanon

#12. To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Wendell Berry

#13. The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

Eustace Mullins

#14. Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

Emma Stone

#15. Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Rita Dove

#16. Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Carolina Herrera