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“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.”
Source : John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.15, University of Missouri Press
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“Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.”
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“It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.”
Source : Leslie What (2008). “Crazy Love: Stories”
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“There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.”
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“Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.”
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“It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.”
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“I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.”
Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
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“It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.”
Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.73, Allison & Busby
