Alabama Quotes

• The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

  Gene Stallings

  People, Expectations, Excellence

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• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

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• While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

  Langston Hughes

  Hate, Broken, Earth

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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• I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.

  Joe Scarborough

  Football, Stills, Devoted

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• And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.

  Howell Raines

  Girl, Believe, Cat

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• I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Reading, Men

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• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  Albert Finney

  People, Groups, Tickets

  Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

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• My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

  Fred Allen

  Uncles, Southern, Undertaker

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.102, Wildside Press LLC

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• I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

  Katherine Webb

  Class, Personality, Moral

  "Katherine Webb discusses her Swimsuit debut, fame and more". Interview with Jimmy Traina, www.si.com. January 11, 2013.

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• The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

  Bear Bryant

  Life, Believe, Victory

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

  Bear Bryant

  College, Dames, Cows

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• You can't ride two horses with one behind.

  Woody Allen

  Horse, Two, Behinds

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

  Albert Finney

  Girlfriend, Nice, Two

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. December 3, 2003.

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• I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out

  Tommy Shaw

  Heart, Sunday, Sight

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• Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

  Bob Riley

  Gentleman, Investment, Greater

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• If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Couple, Gay, Law

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• I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

  Sela Ward

  Teacher, Art, School

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• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Firsts, Criminals, Trials

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• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  Ike Turner

  Artist, Texas, Different

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• I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

  Richard Shelby

  Apology, Support, Effort

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• It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

  Spencer Bachus

  United States, Belief, Beneficial

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• The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

  Artur Davis

  Progress, Racist, Steps

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  Bear Bryant

  School, Player, Signing

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

  Paula Poundstone

  Done, Months, Born

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