The South Quotes

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Atlanta is not the South.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

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.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.