"Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here."

-- John Shelton Reed

#Moving Quotes #Past Quotes #Yankees Quotes

“Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.”
“Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.”
“I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop”
“I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.”
“Families are the treasure of heaven.”
“In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.”
“I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.”

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