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  • I intend to make Georgia howl. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it. -- Mary Lou Retton
  • So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. -- Jesse Jackson
  • 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.
  • 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
  • I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia. -- Jason Aldean
  • Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years -- Julian Bond
  • Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002. -- Paul Weyrich
  • So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter. -- Roy Barnes
  • I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. -- Constance Baker Motley
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  • It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
  • 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
  • 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. -- Anne Edwards
  • I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended. -- Steve Spurrier
  • By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. -- Roy Barnes
  • 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
  • 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
  • I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it. -- Kathy Freston
  • 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. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. -- Spike Lee
  • Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Sonny Perdue
  • Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age. -- Jane Leavy
  • Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. -- Bear Bryant
  • 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
  • I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress. -- Teri Garr
  • These illegal aliens are criminals and we need to treat them as such. I'm not in favor of giving amnesty to anybody who has broken the law. I applaud what our Georgia legislature is doing in trying to crack down on this situation. -- Paul Broun
  • Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. -- Isabella Rossellini
  • I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of. -- Patty Loveless
  • If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback. -- Otis Redding
  • I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind. -- Herschel Walker
  • Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech. -- Mark Zupan
  • Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place -- Vano Merabishvili
  • We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait -- Blake Clark
  • There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia. -- Vano Merabishvili
  • I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team. -- Wayne Knight
  • As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development. -- Roy Barnes
  • I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.' -- Gloria Steinem
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  • The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
  • I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years. -- Julian Bond
  • I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. -- Laura Slade Wiggins
  • I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia. -- Nancy Grace
  • I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government -- Roy Barnes
  • We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. -- Roy Barnes
  • This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia. -- Wade Boggs
  • I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia. -- Robin Williams
  • At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any. -- Erk Russell
  • Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels. -- Roy Barnes
  • Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels. -- Roy Barnes
  • I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well. -- Jason Aldean
  • If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. -- Lewis Grizzard
  • No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia. -- Rob Hawthorne
  • Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves. -- Carlos Santana
  • One thing I will never do as long as I'm at Georgia is lose to Florida. -- Herschel Walker
  • The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws. -- Cynthia McKinney
  • I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them. -- Pat Dye
  • I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. -- Jeri Ryan
  • Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter. -- Frank Marshall Davis
  • In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia. -- Roy Barnes
  • I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. -- Sonny Perdue
  • A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful. -- Edward Hall
  • There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace. -- Duane Allman
  • There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. -- Larry Munson
  • Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA. -- Robert Wright
  • My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. -- Augusten Burroughs
  • My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia. -- J.A. Redmerski
  • I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country. -- Sean Hannity
  • I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. -- Elton John
  • Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman. -- Irakli Okruashvili
  • I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. -- Michael Moore
  • I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. -- Matt Kuchar
  • For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
  • Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. -- Liza Campbell
  • I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work). -- Liza Campbell
  • It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. -- Joseph Lowery
  • You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself. -- Liza Campbell
  • While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech. -- Stephan James
  • Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York. -- Yayoi Kusama
  • Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business. -- Roy Barnes
  • I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army. -- Garry Kasparov
  • The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus. -- Buddy Wakefield
  • Then, [my son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship. -- Jack Nicklaus
  • What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson -- Louise Rennison
  • It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
  • I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to. -- Alec Baldwin
  • The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation. -- Richard Benjamin
  • In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents. -- Joseph Bruce
  • The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries. -- James L. Barksdale
  • Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists. -- Jake Tapper
  • A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder. -- Bill Bryson
  • If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal. -- J. R. Martinez
  • Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. -- Dean Rusk
  • I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. -- Jason Aldean
  • As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from. -- Langston Hughes
  • Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
  • I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision. -- Liza Campbell
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