Georgia State Prison

Famous quotes containing the words georgia, state and/or prison:

    “Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of character makes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “each prison crypt,
    of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
    Surviving in a world of stocks,—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)