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Montgomery Quotes

We’ve collected the best Montgomery Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Donna Brazile, Hallie Ephron, Douglas Brinkley, John Prine, Claudette Colvin. Use them as an inspiration.

1
The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of how much those before us gave for basic human rights.
Donna Brazile
2
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.’
Hallie Ephron
3
There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.
Douglas Brinkley
4
I’ll go to the movies and hear ‘Angel From Montgomery’ in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don’t tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don’t have to, so they don’t tell you. You get paid eventually.
John Prine
5
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part of a lawsuit they wanted to file on my behalf and that of three other women, to challenge segregation on public buses.
Claudette Colvin
6
I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Kevin Eubanks
7
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands – he sang with Bob Crosby’s band – but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.
Toni Tennille
8
I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.
John Abercrombie
9
I am a big Bewitched fan… something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
Barry Williams
10
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.
Rashida Tlaib
11
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
Octavia Spencer
12
Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons – Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.
Steve Rushin
13
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
Claudette Colvin
14
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols – boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale – from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband – is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Hugh Evans
15
Investing in long overdue infrastructure projects like the Montgomery Locks and Dams system is critical to the health of our region’s economy.
Conor Lamb
16
I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.
Hank Williams
17
When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.
William Forsythe
18
At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don’t want politicians who‘ve gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
Keith Ellison
19
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry
20
I had always been a jazz fan – Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from the Hank Marvin melodic upbringing. So blues, I loved, but I also liked jazz. Therefore, my style was more lyrical.
Peter Frampton
21
Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn’t have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted – or, really, dragged into it – initially in Montgomery.
David Garrow
22
My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.
Nigel Hamilton
23
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup‘s soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.
Stephen Rodrick
24
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the ‘mot juste.’
Lauren Willig
25
I grew up on a plantation in Alabama in a small town outside of Montgomery.
Jesse Lee Peterson