Southern Quotes - Page 29

• Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

  Lori Lansens

  Book, California, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

  C. J. Wilson

  Beach, Dad, California

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern countries they are not living in a comfortable society like you and me. They deal with unemployment, corruption, and surviving. For the majority of them, their religion is helping them survive.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Majority, Unemployment

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should understand that the Holocaust in the European conscience is reaching a point which is very close to what is sacred for people in the Southern countries, whether they are Muslims or not. Because of that we need to try to have intellectual empathy.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, People, Holocaust

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you look at other places such as India, Bali, with warmer climates, you know the Southern climates, they are very different. I think there is a time and place for everything and in Australia, for example, it is completely the opposite. I don't think we can be designing for that customer per se.

  Donna Karan

  Thinking, Opposites, Paris

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Opportunity, African American

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  School, White, Interesting

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

  Pusha T

  Long, People, Trying

  Source: www.wbur.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, Europe

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.

  Anna Ternheim

  Song, Real, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops.

  Rhys Darby

  Book, Heart, Men

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Thinking, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Labels, South

  Source: www.litkicks.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Intelligent, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was in high school... I loved the outdoors, and I was introduced to wilderness camping. I was in a little prep school - a boarding school in southern California, in Ojai - and when I was in this school, they had a camping program, and there would be regular trips: hikes into the mountains, the Sierras, the Sespe River Valley, and different places.

  Keith Carradine

  School, California, Rivers

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Labels, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were out there with the people whose homes were flooded out in Southern Louisiana. We are out there on the front line with everyday people fighting the real frontline battle that real Americans are fighting.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Home, Fighting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Thinking, Mexican

  Source: nefac.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

  Janet Varney

  Cities, Arizona, Towns

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

  Dar Williams

  Song, New York, Ocean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

  George W. Bush

  Book, Giving, Presidential

  Source: www.aarp.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Dog, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Wall, Worry, Borders

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

  Werner Herzog

  Alaska, Islands, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Latin, Talking, Interesting

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source