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“Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.”

Ifs Looks Stills Sex Differences Race Sensitive 1960s Savannah

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .”

Thinking Want Self Virtue Patience Tolerate Self Control Delay Forbearance Savannah Patience Virtue Patience Is A Virtue

Author:Catherine Weaver

“When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.”

Firsts Finals Savannah

Author:Tracy Austin

“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.”

People Thinking Term Nice Sweet Proud Southern Hospitality Southerner Savannah Deen

Author:Paula Deen

“I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.”

Bigs Turns Found White Needed Red Bells Mixtures Rice Tomatoes Sausage Peppers Savannah Albany

Author:Paula Deen

“Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.”

Dream Streets Scene Lovely Rivals Legendary Tennessee Savannah Pastel

Author:Rosemary Daniell

“THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.”

“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.”

Firsts Attention Study Rivers Property Series Astronomy Experiments Rays Site Savannah Neutrinos Gamma Rays

Author:Frederick Reines

“Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.”

Home Father Born Sky Mankind Innocence Reaching Lakes Asia Our Father Glowing Menace Capes Nile Savannah

Book:AFRICAN GENISIS

Source: AFRICAN GENISIS

“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.”

Years Firsts Ideas Girl Easy Lows Vote Organization Eight Daring Founders Georgia Iconic Right To Vote Savannah Girl Scout

Author:Anna Maria Chavez

“Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.”

Stories Earth Past Science Difficult Rocks Spring Rivers Ancient Streams Regions Lamps Succession Orderly Monarchs Deserted Lifeless Inaccessible Savannah Aladdin's Lamp

Author:Roy Chapman Andrews