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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Selected quote/1
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.
—
Georgia On My Mind, (1960), lyrics by
Stuart Gorrell and
Hoagy Carmichael
Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Selected quote/2
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 down together at the table of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today...
—
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement
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If you live on the south side of Atlanta (read: "Et-lanna"), get on I-75 and go south. If you live of the north side of Atlanta get on I-75 and go north. If you are a Yankee get on 285.
—
Lewis Grizzard
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Portal:Georgia (U.S. state)/Selected quote/5
Most Nobel Laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage. None has provided more vivid reminders of the dangers of peacemaking than two of my friends, Anwar Sadat and Yitzak Rabin, who gave their lives for the cause of peace in the Middle East.
—
Jimmy Carter, 76th
Governor of Georgia, 39th
President of the United States
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I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
—
Ty Cobb
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