Georgia Quotes

• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Feet, Nails, Get Back

  Lewis Grizzard (2012). “If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground”, p.2, NewSouth Books

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• I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

  Mark Zupan

  Rambling, Wrecks, Georgia Tech

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• Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pigs, Order, Ham

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.52, Macmillan

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• I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

  Sonny Perdue

  Believe, Greatness, Should

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• So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

  Roy Barnes

  Today, Outlook, Brighter

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• 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

  Song, Men, People

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kentucky, Texas, Kansas

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• I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government

  Roy Barnes

  Government, Honest, Committed

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• Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Cocky, Domes, Like You

  Mary Lou Retton, David Bender (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, WaterBrook Press

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• 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

  Southern, East, Band

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• Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Dream, Atlanta

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• For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Winter, Years, Electric Power

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• In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Night

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Country, Believe, Government

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• Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

  Jerry Reed

  Running, Car, Larks

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• Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Marijuana, Want

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• Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

  Paul Weyrich

  Issues, Judging, Voters

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• King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, White, Born

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Love, Peace, Vision

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• It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

  Knute Nelson

  War, Atlanta, Virginia

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• Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.

  Roy Barnes

  Today, Laurels, Position

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• Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Theatre

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