South Quotes - Page 30

• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Hundreds Attend Parks Memorial in Ala". www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2005.

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• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  Bret Michaels

  Night, Next Day, Perspective

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• What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.

  Evo Morales

  Dream, America, Bolivia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Hands, Gentleman

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.136

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

  Mike Quade

  Baseball, Fans, Apathy

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• I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

  Colin Quinn

  Japan, Europe, America

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• Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Aqua, Males

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Denny Hamlin from Sep 08, 2015

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

  Bryan Swanson

  Fifa, Host, Accepting

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

  Cyrus Broacha

  Genes

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• Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  White, Challenges, Shrinking

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• We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

  Ashton Carter

  Friendship, Country, Peace

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• If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Stupid, Skills

  "Hey Rush Limbaugh: Keep Digging" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. September 19, 2008.

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• My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.

  James McBride

  New York, Father, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

  Angelique Kidjo

  East, West, Born

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• I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

  Greg Lake

  Snow, Tree, United States

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• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Evil, Darkness

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• The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Brother, Kings, Good Friend

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• I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

  Dan Savage

  Thinking, Guy, Parks

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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