“Our customers are our friends. When you work for a small community bank, you see these people at the grocery store, at school functions—you see them everywhere you go.”

“The biggest blessing I've ever had was having former students come up to me in Walmart, etc., and say, ‘I want to thank you for what you did for me,’” she says. “One girl said, ‘I want to thank you for making me interested in reading. You made it fun.’”

“Sometimes life is a meandering path and you don’t know where it will take you. When you're trying to figure out what to do, if you can just do the next right thing, God leads you where He needs you.”

“I had been a constant at my grandmother’s Singer sewing machine for quite some time. It was a natural thing for me.”

“Some people have had, even in their youth, most of the breaks in life. It’s those that haven’t that need us the most.”

“One of my hopes going into office was to see our downtown grow. I wanted our children to be proud of where they're from and to want to return home to live, work, and play... and we are seeing that.”

“I sold pumpkin rolls around Christmas time, so I thought I’d try my hand in baking some cakes. I started experimenting with my own recipes, especially buttercream.”

“I had always been a closet Alabama fan and followed Alabama football, so my wife was like ‘what place would be better to go? We could work in Alabama and get to go the Alabama football games!”

“If you treat others the way you wish to be treated, and you are loyal to those who love and support you, and you live in faith, God will work in your life with best intentions for you.”

“I get so much joy out of making each patient feel better. I have had patients become tearful in the chair because they are getting to smile in pictures, and they haven’t smiled in years.”