Montgomery Quotes

Montgomery Quote of the day

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool.

…and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe, " says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.

The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that…

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends