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Quotes About Alabama

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
~ Langston Hughes
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
~ Bob Riley
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
To have a government for and by the people, the people should be appointed to serve on state entities, not lobbyists who have an interest in representing their client rather than representing the folks of Alabama.
~ Kay Ivey
I'm committed to creating an ideal environment for commerce and letting the world know that Alabama is open for business.
~ Kay Ivey
I can assure the people of Alabama I have never done anything illegal.
~ Robert J. Bentley
While it is not likely that Democrats will start winning statewide elections tomorrow in Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming, or Utah, they will never win if they don't plant a flag and start organizing. My own state of Vermont is a good example. Forty-five years ago, Vermont was one of the most Republican states in the country. Today, as a result of a lot of hard work by many people, it is one of the most progressive.
~ Bernie Sanders
Oh! Moon of AlabamaWe now must say good-byeWe've lost our good old mamaAnd must have whiskeyOh, you know why!
~ Bertolt Brecht
I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.
~ Richard Shelby
I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.
~ Thomas H. Cook
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
Even given the choice of supporting an alleged child molester with a troubled, to say the least, history on race or a moderate Democrat, 68 percent of white Alabama voters stuck with the alleged child molester.
~ Stuart Stevens
Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
THERE ARE GODS in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Alabama sun was really something, Willie thought, it was really something. It battered you, enshrouded you, like it had made a pact with hell and humidity to bring you to your knees.
~ Judy Reene Singer
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
~ Bob Riley
Consequently, the town remained the same size for over 150 years. Its primary reason for existence was government. What saved it from becoming another grubby little Alabama community was that Maycomb's proportion of professional people ran high: one went to Maycomb to have his teeth pulled, his wagon fixed, his heart listened to, his money deposited, his mules vetted, his soul saved, his mortgage extended.
~ Harper Lee
on what we heard—" "Now don't you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. . . ." But Jem took exception to Reverend Sykes, and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem's ideas on the law regarding rape: it wasn't rape if she let you, but she had to be eighteen—in Alabama
~ Harper Lee
Jean Louise grinned. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions.
~ Harper Lee
Tat?l ei spunea c? e nevoie de cel puÈ›in 5 ani s? ajungi s? cunoÈ™ti dreptul dup? ce ai terminat facultatea: f?ceai economie doi ani, înv??ai regulile pentru elaborarea pledoariilor în Alabama înc? doi, reciteai Biblia È™i pe Shakespeare în cel de-al cincilea. Dup? care erai preg?tit s? faci fa?? în orice condiÈ›ii.
~ Harper Lee
You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir
~ Harper Lee
When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.
~ Harper Lee