Southern Georgia Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#2. 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

#3. The origin of Georgia's southern border is simpler than that of it's northern border. And bloodier

Mark Stein

#4. 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

#5. I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Evelyn Waugh

#6. My mother's dress bears the stains of her life:
blueberries, blood, bleach,
and breast milk;
She cradles in her arms a lifetime
of love and sorrow;
Its brilliance nearly blinds me.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#7. I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

Lauren Myracle

#8. The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#9. You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#11. So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Michael Stipe

#12. I didn't want a casual fuck, nor did I want a lover. I wanted him to take my soul as his own, fill my heart with his words, and love me with everything he was and ever would be.

J.B. Hartnett

#13. At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

Erk Russell

#14. You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Norman Cousins

#15. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

Janisse Ray

#16. With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Lucas Till

#17. All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie.

Graham Greene

#18. Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

Flannery O'Connor

#19. I hate these people (the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere) for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.

Fred Dryer

#20. In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Chris Carmack

#21. The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

Kanye West

#22. I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#23. Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Bear Bryant

#24. I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

#25. If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.

Brian P. Cleary

#26. Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for a more robust federal response, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did against Jim Crow-defending Southern governors.

Anonymous

#27. Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.

A.E. Samaan

#28. A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of.

Andy Murray