Macon's Quotes

#1. Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations.

Anne Tyler

#2. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve's problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon's problem with Lila, Link's with Ridley. Probably even Ridley's with Link.
Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

Kami Garcia

#3. It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

Jason Aldean

#4. You aren't actually defending the Devil, are you?" Macon held up his hand. "Wait. What am I saying? He's probably your mentor.

Kami Garcia

#5. I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me.

Sarah Dessen

#6. Maybe Macon Ravenwood wasn't the only town shut-in. I didn't think our town was big enough for two Boo Radleys. But

Kami Garcia

#7. In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a ... well, yes I am.

Jon Stewart

#8. These things are difficulties, not impossibilities.
Macon

Margaret Stohl

#9. Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Kami Garcia

#10. But then Macon smiled at me. Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

Joan Bauer

#11. Lord Macon:"Went for a wee nightly run. Needed peace and quiet. Needed air in my fur. Needed fields under my paws. Needed, oh I canna -hic- explain ... needed the company of hegehogs."
Professor Lyall:"And did you find it?"
Lord Macon:"Find what? No hedgehogs. Stupid hedgehogs.

Gail Carriger

#12. They both smiled - Link at the memory of all the pie in his past, Macon at the thought of all the pie in his future.

Kami Garcia

#13. Macon: "It's true. And if that doesn't work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to."
Halley: "The what?"
Macon: "The Jedi Mind Trick." He looked at me. "Didn't you ever see Star Wars?

Sarah Dessen

#14. Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

Billy Connolly

#15. If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

Otis Redding

#16. If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?

John Berendt

#17. What is that, Shakespeare?"
"Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman.

Kami Garcia

#18. A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

Travis Tritt

#19. As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

Otis Redding

#20. Arelia looked up at Macon. It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.

Kami Garcia

#21. If you'd just learn to do as I say from the beginning, I wouldn't have to follow up your errors with reproving smirks and repeated I-told-you-sos.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

Yoshida Shoin

#23. Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter.

Frank Marshall Davis

#24. No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

Nathaniel Macon

#25. Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?"
"Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

Kami Garcia

#26. You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

Ray Lewis

#27. he wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel.

Anne Tyler

#28. I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him.

Kami Garcia

#29. It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Ravenwood

Margaret Stohl

#30. A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job.

Mira Grant

#31. Touch her," he vowed in a low voice, "and I'll feed you to the gators, piece by piece." Macon

Linda Lael Miller

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

Jason Aldean

#33. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard