Quotes About Macon

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

Jason Aldean

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Joan Bauer

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

Kami Garcia

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

Margaret Stohl

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Linda Lael Miller

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

Margaret Stohl

#18. 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

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

Anne Tyler

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

Frank Marshall Davis

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

Anne Tyler

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Kami Garcia

#26. My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

Dwyane Wade

#27. A boy's best friend is his mother.

Robert Bloch

#28. I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

Tom Landry

#29. Unless I am with you I shall never be where I belong.

Morrissey

#30. Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

Muhammad Ali

#31. Reputation takes decades to make. And can be lost in one tweet. Think about that before you press the send button.

David Hieatt

#32. For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

Helmut Jahn

#33. Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.

Iyanla Vanzant

#34. You're probably scare, and nervous, and just about ready to pee your pants. But don't run from your fear. Embrace it! Because believe me, the best things in life are worth fighting for.

Victoria Jamieson

#35. Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Janet Poppendieck

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

Nathaniel Macon

#37. I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Donald Ray Pollock

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.

Tom Stoppard

#41. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

Ben Bradlee

#42. There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Carl Sagan