Quotes of Southern - somelinesforyou

“ My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.' She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy. ”

- Pat Conroy

“ Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. ”

- Billy Carter

“ I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man. ”

- Brooke Burns

“ I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. ”

- Al Gore

“ A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. ”

- Al Michaels

“ Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter. ”

- Charles Phillips

“ I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ”

- Reynolds Price

“ Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart. ”

- Reese Witherspoon

“ And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. ”

- Bible

“ Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ”

- Henry Walter Bates

“ Let Southern oppressors tremble — let their secret abettors tremble — let their Northern apologists tremble — let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ”

- Faye Dunaway

“ And we love to dance — especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame — Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ”

- Ross Macdonald

“ If the Earth got invaded by another planet or an alien race, we would all come together. Whether it's Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, whether it's Israel and Palestine, whether it's black and white, whether it's north and south, whether it's Iran versus Iraq - we would forget our differences, because we now have a common goal… to beat the enemy. ”

- Jerry Doyle

“ People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, 'Where are you from?' doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ After the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the Legislature of New York directed a survey of a state road which was to be constructed at public expense through the southern tier of counties from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. ”

- John Moody

“ My father grew up in Brooklyn, but he fell in love with the Adirondacks when he went there for summer camp. So after medical school in Rochester, New York, he drove south until he found a city in which to practice - Hornell, in New York State's southern tier. ”

- Bill Pullman

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ One of the priorities of my mandate will be the development of a paragon of good neighbourliness relations, having as benchmarks our relations with Hungary. With our Southern neighbour, Bulgaria, we will make the voice of South Eastern Europe heard in NATO and the EU. ”

- Traian Basescu
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