South Quotes - Page 5

• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

  John Keats

  Song, Purple, Mouths

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 2

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• I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Race, People, Wish

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• Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Song, Sweet, Laughter

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

  Buddy Guy

  Thinking, Mississippi, Knows

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  God, Christian, Ocean

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

  Henry L. Benning

  War, Thinking, Safety

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• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Mother, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Moon, Bird

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• Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Blessing, People

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• I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart

  Will Rogers

  Crazy, Inspiration, Heart

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Heart, White

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

  Bill Kurtis

  Mars, South Dakota, Dies

  Source: www.npr.org

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• South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Black

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• Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

  Calvin Jillson

  Texas, Helping, Election

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• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

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• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, California, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Made, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Hips, Retarded

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, War, Puff

  'The Ballad of the King's Jest' (1892)

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• I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Office, India, Roger

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