Southern famous quotes

My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Nice #Health #Southern

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.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Sleep #Two #Southern

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.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Army #Two #Southern

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.
-- Alannah Myles

#Boys #Southern #Black

I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers
-- Albert Parsons

#Southern #Black #Enemy

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.
-- Allison Glock

#Eye #Cutting #Southern

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Men #Southern #Captivity

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Yankees #Europe #Southern

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.
-- Andrew Johnson

#War #Believe #Southern

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
-- Angela Davis

#Country #Cities #Southern

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
-- Angela Kinsey

#Mom #Quilts #Southern

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons

#Southern #Theory #Gifted

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Southern

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
-- Arianna Huffington

#Husband #Mean #Southern

The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness. The Prussian does not have the imagination to conceive in terms of abstract racial and political theories, but when he is told to do something, he does it.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#Imagination #Southern #Political

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
-- Audra McDonald

#Southern #Dialect #Ears

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People #Grandparent #Southern

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Country #Fun #Southern

Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Crush #Europe #Southern

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
-- Belle Boyd

#Southern #Election #States

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Thinking #Southern #Quality

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.
-- Billy Carter

#Real #Boys #Southern

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.
-- Billy Collins

#Memories #Southern #Brain

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.
-- Brad Paisley

#Southern #Comfort #World

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
-- Brad Pitt

#Southern #Example #Heritage

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.
-- Bruce Catton

#War #History #Southern

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
-- Bum Phillips

#War #Southern #Civil War

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
-- Carl L. Becker

#Virginia #Class #Southern

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner
-- Carrie Underwood

#Hair #Southern #Eyeliner

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley

#Southern #Spain #Individualism

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Reality #California #Southern

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Reality #California #Southern

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Southern #Said #Southerner

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Dog #Southern #Jugs

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.
-- Charles Lyell

#Long #Southern #Thames

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'
-- Cheryl Hines

#Mom #Real #Southern

I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.
-- Chris Black

#Thinking #Doors #Southern

Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.
-- Chris Christie

#Running #Wall #Southern

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
-- Chris Hughes

#Religious #School #Southern

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.
-- Chris Parnell

#Thinking #Southern #Baptists

Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.
-- Chuck Leavell

#Character #Southern #Heartfelt

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Growing Up #Southern #Cooking

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
-- Clive Cussler

#Coffee #Home #Southern

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
-- Connie Britton

#Strong #Unique #Southern

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
-- Constance Baker Motley

#College #Southern #Black

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.
-- Craig Brewer

#Christian #Dad #Southern

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this
-- Damon Albarn

#Southern #Usual #Different

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
-- Dave Matthews

#Art #Southern #Melting

My analyses and conclusions differ diametrically from those of the Southern Research Institute/National Cancer Institute report wherein it is concluded that amygdalin 'does not possess activity in the Lewis lung carcinoma system.'. My analysis of the data is that it is overwhelmingly positive.
-- Dean Burk

#Cancer #Data #Southern

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.
-- Della Reese

#Giving Up #Southern #Cooking

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
-- Donna Tartt

#Southern #Matter #Environment

Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions....
-- dream hampton

#Support #Southern #Racist

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#California #Water #Southern

If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.
-- Elizabeth Hawes

#Space #Southern #Subway

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
-- Ellsworth Huntington

#Home #Men #Southern

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
-- Elton Gallegly

#Strong #Law #Southern

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.
-- Erk Russell

#Football #College #Southern

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.
-- Erskine Caldwell

#Art #Southern #Listening

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Southern #Process #Surface

Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite conspirators working together in the Northern and the Southern states.
-- Eustace Mullins

#War #People #Southern

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.
-- Eustace Mullins

#War #Southern #Leaving

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
-- Faith Hill

#People #Parent #Southern

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

#Girl #Track #Southern

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
-- Frances Mayes

#Southern #Speech #Metaphor

What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.
-- Frank J. Prial

#Wine #Southern #Tea

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
-- Fred Allen

#Uncles #Southern #Alabama

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?
-- G. Edward Griffin

#War #Goal #Southern

Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.
-- G. Edward Griffin

#War #Southern #Done

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
-- Gail Collins

#Texas #Southern #Population

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.
-- Geert Hofstede

#Travel #People #Southern

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
-- George Mason

#Southern #Weakness #Unions

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Marriage #Reading #Southern

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
-- Gillian Welch

#People #Southern #Able

I'm a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin

#Makeup #House #Southern

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin

#Sarcastic #Men #Southern

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
-- Harold Bloom

#Men #Southern #Religion

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
-- Harper Lee

#Southern #Lawyer #Novel

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
-- Harper Lee

#Wise #People #Southern

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
-- Harper Lee

#Book #Civilization #Southern

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Southern #Soul #Goes On

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.
-- Helen Hunt Jackson

#Eye #California #Southern

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

#People #Giving #Southern

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.
-- Hinton Rowan Helper

#Southern #Principles #Literature

The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and relations have always been good ... really between the British forces and the local Iraqis in this area,
-- Hoshyar Zebari

#People #Southern #Force

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.
-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Thinking #Silence #Southern

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
-- Jaime King

#Thinking #Southern #Actresses

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.
-- Jaime Pressly

#Girl #Southern #Hollywood

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
-- James A. Michener

#Beautiful #Lakes #Southern

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
-- James Buchan

#Iraq #Southern #World

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.
-- James I. Robertson, Jr.

#Self #Southern #Inspire

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
-- James McBride

#Gun #Waiting #Southern

I'm a southern gentleman.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Southern #Gentleman #Southern Gentleman

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
-- Jamie Foxx

#Grandmother #Grandparent #Southern

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.
-- Jan Brewer

#House #Southern #Drug

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
-- Jeff Foxworthy

#People #Southern #Comedy

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.
-- Jeff Greenfield

#Yield #Order #Southern

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.
-- Jefferson Davis

#War #Smell #Southern

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.
-- Jefferson Davis

#Southern #United States #Compromise

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
-- Joe Slovo

#Southern #Preparation #Minorities

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.
-- Joe Tex

#Southern