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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens. -- Bear Bryant
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
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
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. -- Pat Dye
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. -- Fred Allen
I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama. -- Richard Shelby
I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality. -- Katherine Webb
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education. -- Bob Riley
It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole. -- Spencer Bachus
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken. -- Langston Hughes
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence? -- Gene Stallings
I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do. -- Paula Poundstone
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! -- Bertolt Brecht
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black. -- George Clooney
He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different. -- Don Shula
That computer was made in Alabama -- Muhammad Ali
I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. -- Nick Saban
Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. -- James Carville
I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed, -- Mike Cooley
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa -- Groucho Marx
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country. -- Shelby Lynne
An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant. -- Wally Butts
Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs. -- Mike Rogers
At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships. -- Bear Bryant
I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up. -- Dominique Easley
Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans! -- Robert E. Lee
How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama. -- Yelawolf
I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC. -- Joe Scarborough
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. -- Charles Barkley
I'll never forget where I came from, and that my home is forever Sweet Home Alabama! -- Paul Bearer
I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them. -- Pat Dye
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. -- Joshilyn Jackson
My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. -- Mary Badham
Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home. -- Mike Rogers
...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964 -- Harper Lee
Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama. -- Barry McGuire
By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country. -- Lionel Richie
I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver. -- Condoleezza Rice
I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama. -- John Lewis
I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country. -- Sean Hannity
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in. -- Mike Rogers
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children. -- Billy Graham
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition. -- Richard Dawkins
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song. -- Kenny Chesney
My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town. -- Lennon Parham
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. -- Joseph Lowery
That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama. -- Bill Hicks
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. -- Gore Vidal
Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications. -- Mike Rogers
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution. -- Roy Moore
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama." -- James A. Forbes
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10. -- Dakota Fanning
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama. -- James A. Forbes
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 -- Troy King
I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. -- John Oates
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." -- Paul Washer
With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents. -- Andre Holland
You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers. -- John Green
Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama. -- Mimi Kennedy
They'd played "Sweet Home, Alabama" so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music. -- Jennifer Estep
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. -- Troy King
Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence. -- William Christopher Handy
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. -- Barack Obama
As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie. -- Luke Bryan
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. -- Mike Rogers
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
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. -- Gucci Mane
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick. -- Winfrey Sanderson
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. -- Dorothea Dix
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. -- Adam McKay
Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing. -- Dan Jenkins
I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama. -- Bo Jackson
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. -- Nolan Gould
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. -- Mo Brooks
Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican. -- Jeff Sessions
Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass. -- Gary Danielson
Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home. -- Katy Mixon
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. -- Bob Feller
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,. -- Bill Frist
People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people. -- Kid Rock
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are. -- Hanna Rosin
I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home. -- Bob Feller
The state of Alabama is serious about economic development, and we have shown that the Mobile region has a skilled workforce that is developing every day, strong infrastructure, and an abundance of natural resources. -- Bradley Byrne
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings. -- John Shelton Reed
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. -- Bob Feller
What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence. -- Michel Martin
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. -- Jayson Blair
Ashton grinne and raised her eyebrows. "I can't believe you're telling me a Vincent boy brought you to Grove, Alabama and not me." Shrugging, I returned her smile. "They're heard to resist." "Don't I know it." -- Abbi Glines
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. -- Mike Rogers
I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year. -- Bo Jackson
President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm. -- Jo Bonner
I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them! -- Brian Jordan
The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected. -- Johnny Giles
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued. -- Nelsan Ellis
Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing. -- John Steinbeck
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. -- David Alan Grier
We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues. -- Brittany Howard
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. -- E. O. Wilson
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. -- Faye Wattleton
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff. -- David Edwards
When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that. -- Jimmy Wales
I went to law school at Alabama and I grew up a loyal Auburn fan. I'm one of the few that wrestles with those issues sometimes, but we're really proud of them. Like the University of Alabama has almost doubled its enrollment. -- Jeff Sessions
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. -- Randy Owen
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. -- Joe Frazier
I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull. -- Caitlin Rose
I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat. -- Killer Mike
I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God. -- Roy Moore
I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year. -- Troy King
The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others. -- Allen West
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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. -- Patty Murray

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