Southern Quotes - Page 13

• No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Brother, Eight, Years

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Burning, Lasts

  Song: Southern Man

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• because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

  Florence King

  Goes On, Mouths, Lines

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.162, Macmillan

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• It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

  Peter Steele

  Space, Intimate, Miles

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Realistic, Grotesque, Cases

  "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1960)

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• We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Europe

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• 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, Unions

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• 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, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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• 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, President

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• 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

  Literature, Slavery, Letters

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Theory, Gifted, Madhouses

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• I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

  Al Seckel

  Weekend, Cities, California

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

  Scott Spencer

  Creepy, Annoying

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• A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

  Deborah Smith

  Children, Husband, Smart

  Deborah Smith (2009). “On Bear Mountain”, p.229, BelleBooks

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• We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Borders, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

  Lucas Till

  Real, Night, White

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

  Kid Rock

  Rap, Rocks, Driven

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Aug 05, 2013

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• I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Home, Simple

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

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• People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

  Kid Rock

  Simple, People, Different

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• In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

  Sadao Araki

  Order, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

  "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  Pat Robertson

  Baptists, Wells, Southern Baptist

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• 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

  Example, Heritage, Dialect

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