Southern Quotes - Page 16

• The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

  Sam Hinton

  California, Body, Groups

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore, 14.3, July 1965.

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• You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

  DJ Qualls

  Stupid, Opposites, People

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Southern Kordofan is not a disputed territory. It is, and will remain, in the north, where the Nuba Mountains are. People believe there was a genocide there in 1990s. The Nuba, who are northerners, fought with the south in the north-south war. But they have their own individual interests, and they will remain in the north after the south splits.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  War, Believe, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

  John McCain

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  John McCain Slams Mitt Romney’s ‘Self-Deportation,’ Advocates ‘Humane Approach’ To Immigration" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.

  Markus Zusak

  Air, Blood, Noses

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

  Geert Hofstede

  Travel, Southern Italy, People

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• I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

  Kara Walker

  Knives, People, Next

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• I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Memories, People, Singing

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

  Connie Britton

  Country, Rocks, Virginia

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

  Josh Radnor

  Dog, Mind, Californians

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  Walton Goggins

  Character, Knows, Perpetuating

  "The Justified star on how cable TV made bad guys better, and why Robert Duvall scared the shit out of him as a kid". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

  Liu Bei

  People, Kingdoms, Sailor

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• There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

  Walter Scott

  Fine Words, Parsnips, Fine

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229

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• The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Team, Winning, Class

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

  Joe Slovo

  Preparation, Minorities, Commencement

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• If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

  Edgar Cayce

  Lakes, Earthquakes, California

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• Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Art, Listening, Stories

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Space, Subway, Type

  Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”

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• Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Animal, Europe

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• Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Wall, President

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Literature, Slavery, Letters

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Burning, Lasts

  Song: Southern Man

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