The best Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

The best Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Jerry Seinfeld

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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

Channing Tatum

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

Florida Washington (State)

I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.

Ron DeSantis - November 2018

"How you gonna get a gun?"
"This is Florida. The God damn state is shaped like a gun!"

Florida Man

Florida is America's bas*ment: it's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.

Robert California in The Office - Season 8 Episode 11

Wrong? We're in Florida. The state bird is a chicken finger.

Maury the Hormone Monster in Big Mouth - Season 3 Episode 5

Saudi Arabia... the country with bans on pork, alcohol and p*rn - or, as it's known in America: a Florida Breakfast.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Florida Saudi Arabia

Jerry: "Why Florida?"
Cat: "Because they don't ask questions. They play Volleyball, they party and they have fun."

Rick and Morty - Season 4 Episode 4

Saul Goodman: "How about Florida? You get a tan, meet the Swedish bikini team, you know, swim with the dolphins."
Jesse Pinkman: "What about... Alaska?"
Saul Goodman: "Alaska, okay. Well, that's a different vibe. I never figured you for a big moose lover, but whatever floats your boat."

Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad - Season 5 Episode 11

Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot.

Jules Verne in From the Earth to the Moon

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Florida.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Florida - and that's pretty much the same thing.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

Tua Tagovailoa

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Alabama Mississippi Louisiana

Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Alabama Chicken & Roosters

Alabama girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Alabama.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

Devlin Hodges

Dear Hope, The state of Alabama has like a million Waffle Houses and I can't stop thinking about what it felt like to kiss you.

Landon Kirby in Legacies - Season 1 Episode 8

It's not red. It's crimson.
We are the Crimson Tide. Our mascot is an elephant.
There's no place like Tuscaloosa on gameday.
And Bryant-Denny Stadium has no equal.
Fall or spring, it's always a big game when 'Bama plays.
We play Rammer Jammer when we win. We play it a lot.
We don't live in the past. It's just that our past is better than yours.
So to set the record straight... this is ALABAMA FOOTBALL!

Mr. Garrison: "Where are you from?"
Damien: "The Seventh Layer of Hell."
Mr. Garrison: "Oh, my mother was from Alabama."

Mr. Garrison in South Park - Season 1 Episode 10

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Alabama - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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