Quotes About Blue Ridge Mountains

#1. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Kary Mullis

#2. No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

Walton Goggins

#3. We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Roy Barnes

#4. One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

#5. You can't have 'yes' people around you.

Terry Bradshaw

#6. This night it would happen, had to happen. Just as it had happened before. Just as it would happen again, and again.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

Guy Fieri

#8. The best presents don't come in boxes.

Bill Watterson

#9. Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

Pope Francis

#10. Poets are the most difficult creatures to work with.

Suman Pokhrel

#11. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E.L. Doctorow

#12. By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

Jon Porter

#13. Their eyes locked. Again, heat rose to Livy's cheeks. He needed to stop looking at her that way. She never should have noticed the captivating hue of his sky-blue eyes. When was the last time a man flustered her like this. Maybe never.

Teresa Tysinger

#14. It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

Edward Witten

#15. If you ever care to see how all the world's most awful jokes spread, spend a day on a bond trading desk. When the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated, six people called me from six points on the globe to explain that NASA stands for Need Another Seven Astronauts.

Michael Lewis

#16. You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ... ? I wonder what I was blushing about?

Gracie Allen

#17. That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

Tatiana Maslany