Southern Quotes
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.
I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.
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.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
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.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.
There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.
As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.
