Southern Quotes - Page 19

• It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

  Harper Lee

  Wise, People, Stories

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• My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Civilization, Universal Themes

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• In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.

  Barbara Crossette

  Girl, Country, Strong

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

  Katy Mixon

  Honey, Accents, Southern Accent

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

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• The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.

  Jessica Simpson

  Girl, Real, Heart

  Song: With You, Album: In This Skin

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• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

  Max Muller

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, Vol. II, Ch. XXXII, 1902.

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• Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Two, House, Energy

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• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Debt, Unions

  "Welcome to the D€bt Union". UK Independence Party Website, June 29, 2012.

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• I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Silence, Rooms

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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• When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Sarcastic, Men, Guy

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

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• My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

  Nancy Grace

  Father, Men, Years

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• Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

  David Simon

  Moving, College, Essence

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• A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

  Travis Tritt

  Brother, Home, Talking

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• I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

  Charles Lyell

  Long Ago, Thames, Periods

  Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Brain, Hemisphere

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Destiny, America, People

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• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Years, White

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• If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Mountain, Would Be, Mount Rushmore

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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