Age Quote by J. D. Vance

It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

“no single book, or expert, or field could fully explain the problems of hillbillies in modern America. Our elegy is a sociological one, yes,…

— J.D. Vance

“In the Carolinas they say "hill people" are different from "flatlands people," and as a native Kentuckian with more mountain than flatlands blood, I'm…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

— J.D. Vance

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never…

— D. H. Lawrence

“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate…

— Carolyn Jourdan

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a…

— Travis Tritt

“Human tendency is to make mountains out of molehills. Yet when we examine our problems...we realize it's how we look at them...that really makes…

— Timothy Pina

Montanans are infused with landscape. You can sit in a landscape for hours and disappear. You can be part of the quiet. Or you…

— Lily Gladstone

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

— Count Basie

“People might think folks in the South are nosey. Folks in the South don't ask questions to learn something; they ask to find out…

— Bill Peach