Georgia (U.S. state) Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Georgia (U.S. state).
Top Quotes
“Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!”
“I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl!”
“Our people do not need to bleed the color of red Georgia clay.”
“Calling up my homeboy, Daddy Ray. Hey Ray, what's up with the girls in GA?”
“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state”
“We're on the grind in Georgia, all the time. It ain't nothing no my mind, but Georgia.”
“Down near the Florida border, Georgia could give South Carolina lessons in heat and humidity.”
“Social equality is impossible. The schools are not going to be mixed, come hell or high water.”
“The town in Georgia's got a law on the books / Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks / Now what could make them think that way?”
“Georgia, where the peaches grow. They drink lemonade and speak real slow.”
“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.”
“Where Gladys Knight took the Midnight Train; the birthplace of Martin Luther King.”
“If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.”
“By the original compact of government, the United States had certain rights in Georgia, which have never been relinquished and never will be... Allow the Union and peace once more to settle over your old homes at Atlanta.”
“Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you.
Georgia, oh Georgia, no peace I find...
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind.”
“Started in Atlanta, then I spread out with it. South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi. On to North Carolina, Philadelphia, and Virginia. From down in Miami where it's warm in the winter. On up to Minnesota where it storms in the winter.”
“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.”
“It is unknown how many slaves were freed in Virginia as a reward for military service, but in neighboring Georgia, Austin Dabney was the only one. Purchased by the legislature from his owner, he also received a land grant as well as a federal pension.”
“We have a great deal to be proud of as Georgians. Our history, our heritage, our state's great natural beauty. But, nothing should make us prouder than the way Georgia has led the South by focusing on the things that unite us instead of dwelling on those that divide us.”