Quotes About The State Of Georgia

#1. The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#2. A quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.

Roy Barnes

#3. I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#4. Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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

Jason Aldean

#6. Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

Saul Gorn

#7. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

Azar Nafisi

#8. From 1882 to 1930, Florida recorded more lynchings of black people (266) than any other state, and from 1900 to 1930, a per capita lynching rate twice that of Mississippi, Georgia, or Louisiana.

Gilbert King

#9. For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Anne Edwards

#10. She looked up and he was looking at her, too, and it was like kissing - or perhaps the moment just before kissing, or maybe a long time after.

Madeline Ashby

#11. By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

Roy Barnes

#12. When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.

Sonny Perdue

#13. Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Coco Chanel

#14. Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Ray Charles

#16. Georgia State Motto
Wisdom, justice, and moderation.
If the heat don't kill you the stupidity will.

Beryl Dov

#17. More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

Jennifer Haigh

#18. Nathan Deal brings the experience, maturity and track record to ensure that Georgia continues to be a great place to live, work and raise a family. That's why he has my support for a second term as governor of this great state.

Karen Handel

#19. When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart, I cry then extend my hand to help with my heart.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Georgia became the latest state to join that list when Gov. Nathan Deal signed an executive order Monday. It described the new policy as a matter of fairness and a way to strengthen the state's economy by expanding the pool of workers.

Anonymous

#21. Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#22. And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.

Laura Ruby

#23. It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#24. I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.

David Liss

#25. I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Michael Moore

#26. How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself.

("Thirty-Three Abominations")

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

#27. Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#28. I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

Julian Bond

#29. When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

Ferran Adria

#30. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.

John Irving

#31. Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.

Theo James

#32. i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II

Amanda Lovelace