Georgia Quotes - Page 7

• Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.

  Gregory Nicotero

  School, People, Zombie

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

  Robert Wright

  Jesus, Party, Reality

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• A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.

  Sandra Hochman

  Art, Mean, Knights

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• I definitely admire Blair Walsh the most. He's actually a pretty close friend of mine. Just how he went through his senior year at Georgia, I kind of went through the same struggles. He's been able to coach me through everything and help me. Everyone is there for a reason, and they're all great. On and off the field, there's a reason they're there.

  Kyle Brindza

  Senior, Struggle, Years

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• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

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

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• It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

  Joseph Lowery

  Virginia, Florida, Texas

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sweet, Horse

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Food

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Children, Gun

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• 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

  Hate, California, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Atlanta, Political, Constitution

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• 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

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• I want us to know our world.   If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Crazy, Our World, Texas

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• I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Mother, Father, Mean

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

  Niki Taylor

  Mom, Teacher, Husband

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Texas

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Erk Russell

  Football, College, Southern

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Robert Whitmore
  died of apoplexy
  when a stranger from Georgia
  mistook him
  for a former Macon waiter.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Stranger, Former, Waiter

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prejudice, Done, Baptists

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• Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place

  Vano Merabishvili

  Amnesty, Unprecedented

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• I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

  Matt Kuchar

  Home, Lakes, East

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Way

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Italian, Eyebrows, Way

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