Atlanta Quotes · Page 7

I'm an Atlanta guy. I think Philly knows that. But I've adopted Philly as my second home, and they've embraced me.

— Lou Williams

Atlanta, to me, has the sauce as far as urban music is concerned.

— Lecrae

“We had been hiding and fighting for days and were still within a two hour drive of Atlanta. ”

— Dirk Patton

I'm grateful for the opportunity I've had with Atlanta United.

— Frank de Boer

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

— John Shelton Reed

In my mind, Atlanta is a city where people are constantly trying to come up. They want to be richer than they…

— Stephen Glover

Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.

— Al Horford

Everybody in the world is going to know I played 20 years for the Atlanta Braves, but that doesn't change my broadcast.

— John Smoltz

Especially growing up in Atlanta, I saw it firsthand - nobody really wanted to play tennis. You went to basketball or football.

— Christopher Eubanks

There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York.…

— Cam Newton

Atlanta has always been my favorite place to go, even when I was 'in the world.' When I came down here, people…

— Mase

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this…

— Tim Hudson

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are…

— Denis Leary

“fund-raiser where the whitest men and women in North Atlanta sat around in Dolce & Gabbana sampling perogies and Swedish meatballs made…

— Karin Slaughter

If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in…

— Johnny Van Zant

I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him…

— Bow Wow

I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in…

— Jennifer Nettles

I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global…

— Laurie Holden

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be.…

— Jimmy Carter

Atlanta is a big market for me. They've always supported my music. They took care of my people during Hurricane Katrina, so…

— Master P

I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should…

— Jacob Latimore

When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved.…

— Danielle Panabaker

I like LA. LA is cool, but it aint like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up…

— Chris Tucker

“Baldwin glanced at his watch and saw it was too early to order a drink. This was supposed to be a beautiful,…

— J.T. Ellison

Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to…

— Brian Tyree Henry

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

— Chuck Tanner

CNN was just a glimmer in my eye when I was growing up in Atlanta.

— Brooke Baldwin

I am a Georgia guy, and I have Brett Favre's card when he played with the Atlanta Falcons. That's my retirement plan.

— Forrest Griffin

I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.

— Derek Trucks

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people…

— Michael Nutter

'Trap House' is one of my favorite songs off '300 Days 300 Nights' mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it…

— Lil Durk

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be…

— Billy Graham

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer.…

— Jermaine Dupri

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs…

— Mark Martin

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he…

— A. W. Tillinghast

I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I…

— Morgan Saylor

My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox,…

— Alex Borstein

Hulk Hogan and I put 43,000 people in the Georgia Dome with three days' notice. I've got a fairly big following in Atlanta.

— Bill Goldberg

I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed…

— Hiro Murai

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that…

— Alice Walker