Top 34 Quotes About Appalachia
#1. As the economies of Kentucky and West Virginia lagged behind those of their neighbors, the mountains had only two products that the industrial economies of the North needed: coal and hill people. And Appalachia exported a lot of both. Precise
J.D. Vance
#2. Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men.
Bruce Lee Bond
#3. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.
Paul Burch
#4. Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains
John Grisham
#5. My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
Dwight Yoakam
#6. Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
Sam Trammell
#7. I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
William Gibson
#8. But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.
Jeff Goodell
#9. For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
Jeff Goodell
#10. Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
Rand Paul
#11. I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
Tom Robbins
#12. Asked. So far, in her brief time in Appalachia, she had become convinced that every five families had their own tiny church with a leaning white steeple. There were churches everywhere, all believing in the inerrancy of the Holy Scripture but evidently agreeing on little else.
Anonymous
#13. Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.
Joel Salatin
#14. In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here. Which is why our miners have to dig so deep.
Suzanne Collins
#15. What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Majora Carter
#16. There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Shane Claiborne
#17. Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.
Silas House
#19. I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver
#20. You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
Danielle Steel
#21. It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
Sally Mann
#22. 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
#23. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.
Jack E. Weller
#24. If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
Carolyn Chute
#25. You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.
Jason Jack Miller
#26. What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.
Bill Bryson
#27. 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
#29. Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.
Jason Jack Miller
#30. 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
#31. If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
Carolyn Chute
#32. 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
#34. They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.
Sarah Sullivan
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