Savannah Quotes - Page 1

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
William Tecumseh Sherman / U.s. General
Christmas
Smile
Cities
Civil War
Savannah
Beg
City
Present
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I really like Savannah Guthrie. I think that she is a very likable person.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery /
Savannah
Guthrie
Likable
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When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Tracy Austin / Tennis Player
Finals
Firsts
Savannah
Defeating
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I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
Clarence Thomas / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Catholic
Savannah
Minority
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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
David Morrissey / Actor
Romantic
Amazing
House
Moss
Savannah
Squares
Brutally
Colonial
French
Hanging
Houses
Town
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I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.
Dominic Monaghan / Actor
Beaten
Camping
Hardcore
People
Savannah
Track
Africa
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No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Lions
Savannah
Main Reason
Sleeping
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I used to go to Savannah all the time as a teenager, and we've got some friends down in Valdosta, so I feel like I've got a good base of support.
Phil Gingrey / Former U.s. Representative
Savannah
Time Good Feel
Base
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When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.
Hollis Stacy / Golfer
Golf
Golf Course
Holes
Savannah
Little Girl
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He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah." "I know. Sorry." "So I get a hug?" "No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.
Kelley Armstrong / Writer
Hug
Savannah
Sorry
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I'm equally happy bouncing across the African savannah in an old Land Rover as I am staying in a luxury resort in The Maldives. Travel and the wilderness excite me.
Ben Fogle /
Happy
Travel
Luxury
Savannah
Staying
Wilderness
Travel I Am Me
Across
African
Bouncing
Old
Equally
Excite
Resort
Rover
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When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bags
Brown
Filled
Grandmother
Realizing
Savannah
Grocery
Headed
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Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects across the solar system with extreme precision.
Dominic Cummings /
Journey
Forecasts
Mankind
Precision
Savannah
Solar System
Species
Across
Extreme
African
Fundamental
Solar
Tribe
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I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
Frederick Reines / Physicist
Astronomy
Attention
Experiments
Rays
Rivers
Savannah
Series
Site
Study
Began
Gamma
Properties
Ray
River
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And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Long
Savannah
Tree
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I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.
Paula Deen / Chef
Hospitality
Nice
Savannah
Southern
Southerner
Sweet
Term
Thinking
Exists
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In 1981, when he ran for governor, I confiscated the needlepoint belts of New Jersey's Tom Kean. It's a patrician look that is right for the Vineyard, Nantucket, Darien, Greenwich, Charleston and Savannah.
Roger Stone / Political Consultant
Belts
Charleston
Greenwich
Jersey
Ran
Savannah
Governor
Tom
Vineyard
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The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.
Clarence Thomas / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Done
People
Savannah
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I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.
Parvesh Cheena / Character Actor
Cusp
Fascinated
Savannah
Ate
Lady
My Friend
Paula
Restaurant
Sons
Studying
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We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.
Joel David Moore /
Savannah
Afterwards
Jon
Shot
Cast
Danny
Project
Winston
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Super Bowl XXXII was a victory made long before stepping on that field in San Diego in 1998. It was earned with my brother guiding me as a kid in Glennville, Ga., and as a seventh-round pick out of Savannah State. Even at the pinnacle, that ring was always his.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Brother
Pinnacle
San Diego
Savannah
Super Bowl
Ring
Bowl
Diego
Earned
Guiding
Pick
San
Stepping
Super
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Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
Robert Winston / Professor
Men
Common Purpose
Conflict
Fortitude
Genes
Groups
Morale
Odds
Savannah
Seeds
Survived
Creature
Competitive
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Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
Anna Maria Chavez /
Girl
Daring
Easy
Eight
Georgia
Iconic
Organization
Savannah
Vote
Years
Earn
Founder
Gather
Girl Scouts
Gordon
Low
Overlook
Scouts
Troop
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'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.
Douglas Trumbull / Film Director
Dawn
Savannah
Sequence
African
Background
Photographs
Project
Giant
Lens
Onto
Reflective
Screen
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Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
Mary Roach / Author
Dry
Environment
Fats
Hunters
Junk
Junk Food
Niche
Nutrients
Popularity
Salt
Savannah
Scarce
Taste
Animals
Earliest
Evolved
Explains
Widespread
Occupy
Specialized
Systems
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