I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight?” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“Here's how I'll tell you what I think—if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
“Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Appalachia, an Indian name meaning “Endless Mountains”, is well suited to the land. The Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges… — Nancy Richmond Copy Share Image
Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance,… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense… — Nancy Richmond Copy Share Image
“Appalachia teaches us that breaking people out of bad communities has more promise than changing those communities wholesale; that encouraging family stability—or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that… — Jack E. Weller Copy Share Image
“You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.” — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent. — Conchata Ferrell Copy Share Image
I grew up in Appalachia, and I've seen people milk cows and slaughter pigs and plow with a big-footed horse. It's not… — Conchata Ferrell Copy Share Image
“We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“Because it’s Appalachia. The coal companies are destroying our mountains, towns, culture, and lives, and it’s not a story.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has… — Silas House Copy Share Image
I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“It was still late summer elsewhere, but here, high in Appalachia, fall was coming; for the last three mornings, she'd been able… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
![“Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.” quote by Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/726/michael-bloomberg-1293_america_go-walk-the-streets-of-beijing-it-s-pret_482884.jpg)
![“Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.” quote by Silas House](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1c/silas-house-23346_appalachia_because-they-americans-want-to-be-though_2431071.jpg)
