Best 74 quotes in «alabama quotes» category

I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

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.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I live in rural Alabama, and it's very conservative. I've had one guy say 'you can't be a minister and a DJ at the same time'. I thought 'how does someone get to choose what God has assigned me to do - God has given me a ministry.

I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.

I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

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

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

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa

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.

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

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

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

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

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

That computer was made in Alabama

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

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!

The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

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.

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

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.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.