Quotes About South Alabama

#1. His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Joe Frazier

#3. I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

Shelby Lynne

#4. Don't condemn what another sees as perfection, just because it doesn't fit your ideals. You want that respect from them, so be the first to give it when considering their position." With

Judith Pella

#5. I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Bob Feller

#6. Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

Kirk Douglas

#7. You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming"-Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#8. Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

Grace Lee Boggs

#9. I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

Sean Hannity

#10. In some of the most heavily populated slave states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860.

James Oakes

#11. I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Diplo

#12. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

Steve Harvey

#14. You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted.

George Takei

#15. Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Robert C. Solomon

#16. I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Donald Fagen

#17. You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

#18. African Americans had been compelled to work in Alabama mines prior to the Great Depression. His grandfather, once a coal miner himself, had told him stories of a similar burial field near the family home place south of Birmingham.

Douglas A. Blackmon

#19. God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#20. You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller

#21. In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama

Harper Lee

#22. the south where these stories take place - is lower Alabama, lush and green and full of death, the wooded counties between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers.

Tom Franklin