Southern Appalachian Poetry Quotes

#1. We do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

Katherine Anne Porter

#2. Well if this be order
give me a wheelbarruh of chaos
and a pop bottle full of shook up rattlesnakes

Bob Henry Baber

#3. Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#4. I was just telling the truth, but people always seem to think you're stark, staring mad when you do that.

Margaret Ferguson

#5. O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I don't consider myself a pariah.

Bernie Sanders

#7. I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress.

Rachel E. Carter

#8. I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Tiki Barber

#9. Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn't resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart.

Amanda Usen

#10. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

Jeremy Paxton

#11. You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.

John De Ruiter

#12. I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Hunter S. Thompson