Southern Quotes - Page 12

• I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

  Bum Phillips

  War, Lost, Knows

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• I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Slave, Worst

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.14

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• The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Son, Player

  "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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• In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

  Mark Twain

  War, Elsewhere, South

  1883 Of the American Civil War. Life on the Mississippi, ch.45.

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• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Victory, Glory

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• The South is the region that history has happened to.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Regions, Happened, South

  "The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver".

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• It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Memories, Dark

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• I like the South because of the people. They are loyal. Once they love a team, they're fans forever.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Team, People, Forever

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• The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  World, Places In The World, South

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• It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

  Louis E. Boone

  Wisdom, Brother, Land

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• It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

  Don Williams

  Country, Technology, California

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• A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

  Leah Cypess

  Girl, Dark, And Love

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• It's kind of cheesy, but my mama, who you all have seen on the show, says to cook for your man. She's Southern, so when he comes home, be pullin' a pie out of the oven. That's always been her advice, and you know what? It works. Your man wants to see you in the kitchen, puttin' some love into some food; it works for Eric, that's for sure.

  Jessie James Decker

  Home, Men, Pie

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• The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness. The Prussian does not have the imagination to conceive in terms of abstract racial and political theories, but when he is told to do something, he does it.

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Imagination, Political, Doe

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• Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Self, Inspire, Causes

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• Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings the songs, and it's the songs that heal the hurt. Jonathan's songs bring us there, and back. Check this record out, it's a good 'un.

  Mary Gauthier

  Beautiful, Song, Hurt

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• Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

  Luther Allison

  Real, Nice, Kids

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• When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Stupid, Humorous

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• In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

  David F. Houston

  Country, Sweet, Animal

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• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Sleep, Littles

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

  Clarence Clemons

  Growing Up, Southern Italy, Cooking

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• None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Loss, Fighting

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• Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Kissing, French Kiss

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jan 25, 2013

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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