South Quotes - Page 25

• A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Drawing, Feet, Tree

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• In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  War, Army, Korea

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• Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

  Kim Jong Il

  Unity, Favors, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.

  William R. Ferris

  Views, Wind, Looks

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Mean, White

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Successful, Hot, Unemployment

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Passion, Rapper, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, People, Alabama

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

  Sean Hannity

  Flags, Want, Good Person

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

  John Galsworthy

  Book, Men, Squares

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.1149, e-artnow

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Progressive Society

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  Paul Theroux

  Wise, Country, America

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, Divorce, Fighting

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• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  Candice Millard

  Slave Owners, People, Parent

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  Sibling, America, Long

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

  Rosemary Daniell

  New York, School, Visiting

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Wall, Sleep

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• Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Years, Comedy, Scene

  "Interview: Comedian Gabriel Iglesias For 'The Fluffy Movie'". Interview with Patrick McD, www.hollywoodchicago.com. July 24, 2014.

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• [To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

  Helen Suzman

  Civilization, White, Skins

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, Cooking

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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