Southern Quotes - Page 10

• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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

  Erk Russell

  Football, College, Cost

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• 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, Structure, British

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• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, California

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Rising, Half

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• 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 Italy, Tea

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• 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, Steel

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• Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.

  Horace Porter

  Country, War, Blood

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• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sunset, Causes, Losing

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.34.

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• Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

  Bill Mumy

  Artist, Rocks, Two

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Fashion, War

  "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

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• They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  Lance Bass

  Gentleman, Southern Gentleman

  "Britney Spears Knew Lance Bass Was Gay Before You Did". www.mtv.com. October 16, 2007.

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• As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, America, Needs

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Men, Two, White

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• 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, Left

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• The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Europe, Sea

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• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

  Alan Lomax

  Song, Land, People

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• Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

  Cleo Moore

  Baseball, Fighting, Thinking

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• 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, Fabulous

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• The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Redneck, Violence, Irony

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• Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

  Murray Rothbard

  Wisdom, Advice, Unions

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