Quotes About Hillbillies

#1. You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something.

Jean Thompson

#2. It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

Patti Smith

#3. I believe we hillbillies are the toughest goddamned people on this earth. We take an electric saw to the hide of those who insult our mother. We

J.D. Vance

#4. Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour
appearing in small Southern towns
in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Bill Hicks

#5. If you think you're an alcoholic, go to Scotland. You're not an alcoholic. These people are such drunken, toothless hillbillies - I've never seen anything like it. People in Scotland drink while they're drinking.

Jay Mohr

#6. I like the carrot cake," Maddy announced and Tucker nodded.
"Fucking hillbillies," I muttered. "We really do love our carrot cake.

Bijou Hunter

#7. Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

Kent Haruf

#8. No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

John Shelton Reed

#9. The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Jon Stewart

#10. If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dave Barry

#11. It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Bela Fleck

#13. Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family. The

J.D. Vance

#14. When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies?

Jennifer Close

#15. A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

Norm MacDonald

#16. I still fit in with the hillbillies!

Gretchen Wilson

#17. Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Daniel Woodrell

#18. Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;

Bill Bryson

#19. They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number
on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.

Lou Whitaker

#20. Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British soil. An ever-growing feeling of annoyance had begun to lay hold of the nation.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. Challenges lead to Growth,
Grow matures ones daily living,
Living a good life expedites ... Wisdom

Vernetta Norman

#22. Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

George R R Martin

#23. Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do ...

Sheila Heti

#24. The strongest among us are the ones who cry behind closed doors, have the ability to smile through silent pain, and fight battles that are obscured by shame.

A.L. Smith

#25. It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all.

Anna Quindlen