Georgia Quotes - page 4

The large 'White Flower' [Georgia painted in 1929] with the golden heart is something I have to say about White – quite different from what White has been meaning to me. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower – and what is my experience of the flower if it is not color. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dear Anita [ w:Anita Pollitzer ], don't forget w:Mary Cassatt [as one of her inspirations] - and I am not sure that your new paragraph will hold water [(Anita had sent her a chapter of the biography she was writing about Georgia] - We [artists] probably all derive from something - with some it is more obvious than with others - so much so that we can not escape a language of line that has been growing in meaning since the beginning of lines. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me. View quote
Alton Brown
I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson. View quote
Louise Rennison
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent. View quote
Bidzina Ivanishvili
In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team. View quote
John Salley
I remember an incident when, as Chief of Army Field Forces, I went to Fort Benning, Georgia, to watch the instruction of the first class of Korean officers sent to America. I have seen a lot of training in my years of experience in the Army, but never had I seen more attentive concentration on the instructor. Not a Korean shifted his eyes from the instructor once during the session. It appeared to me that each Korean officer felt that in some way the mere physical process of unbroken sight of the instructor would speed the process by which he learned from the American teacher. View quote
Mark W. Clark
I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith based community in Georgia of which my family and I are a part of for all of our lives. View quote
Nathan Deal
When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union. View quote
Sonny Perdue
I am proud and honored to be joining President-elect Trump's administration as his Secretary of Agriculture,” Perdue said Thursday. "Beginning as a simple Georgia farm boy, making sure Americans who make their livelihood in the agriculture industry are thriving is near and dear to my heart, and I'm going to champion the concerns of American agriculture and work tirelessly to solve the issues facing our farm families in this new role. View quote
Sonny Perdue
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. (Sonny Perdue)
No sound doth great the still of night; My mother land in silence lies; Yet oft is heard an anguished moan As Georgia in her slumber sighs. I stand alone ... the mountains, shades The slumber of my land caress. O God! O God! when will we wake And rise again to happiness? View quote
Ilia Chavchavadze
I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time. View quote
Alice Smith
I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't. View quote
Alyson Stoner
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years. View quote
Anna Maria Chavez
For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late. View quote
Anne Edwards
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Georgia has some really tough allergies. View quote
Brooke Elliott
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws. View quote
Cynthia McKinney
When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage. View quote
Danielle Panabaker
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball! (Ernie Harwell)
My friends call me George, GM, or Georgia. But most people who know me from when I was little call me Georgia May. View quote
Georgia May Jagger
I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. View quote
Jeri Ryan
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. View quote
Jerry Reed
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. View quote
John Henrik Clarke