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Quotes About Hillbillies

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.
~ Jon Stewart
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
~ Patti Smith, Just Kids
We have hillbillies with third grade educations and 8th grade educations who have conquered the poker world. There is no telling why someone is great at reading other people. Some people just are.
~ Phil Hellmuth
Yes, peasants," he repeated slowly. "The lowliest of the low among humans." Then he enunciated, "Exceedingly backward and vulgar hillbillies." "Been called worse, mister." At his raised brows, she exhaled impatiently. "Bootlegger, moonshiner, Elly May Clampett, mountain mama, redneck, backwoods Bessie, hick, trailer trash, yokel, and, more recently, death-row con." "No references to mining? I'm disappointed.
~ Kresley Cole
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
~ Daniel Woodrell
loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;
~ Bill Bryson
I keep hearing all these jokes on TV about how people in Arkansas are still barefoot hillbillies. Sure there are plenty of people living up in the hills and mountains on Arkansas. Why not? The scenery is breathtaking from their million-dollar houses up in those hills. Those people bought Wal-Mart stock early. They paid cash for those homes. -Little Rock resident on how some people from "up North" view Arkansas
~ Unknown
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
~ Patti Smith