South Quotes

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

You know that show 'Teen Mom'? Or if you're from the South, 'Mom.

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.

The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia.

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

What is true in the South is true for America.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

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.

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

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.