Southern Quotes - Page 15

• 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, Aristocracy

  "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.

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• I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Play, Missing, Mouths

  "The Saturday interview: Vanessa Redgrave". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

  Ken MacLeod

  Thinking, Way, Said

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.

  Andrew Johnson

  Real, Writing, Color

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865”, p.599, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• 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, Rooms

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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• Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Debt, Unions

  "Welcome to the D€bt Union". UK Independence Party Website, June 29, 2012.

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• El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, California, Climate

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Twilight, Eye, California

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• You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

  Katy Mixon

  Honey, Accents, Southern Accent

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

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• Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

  Rachel Miner

  Girl, Voice, Trying

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• I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

  Julian Bond

  Thinking, Way, Southerner

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Philosophy, Two, Blind Spots

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• At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Book, Black And White

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• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Couple, Funny Things, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.

  Chris Rock

  Gay, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.

  Markus Zusak

  Air, Blood, Noses

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

  Max Muller

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, Vol. II, Ch. XXXII, 1902.

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• Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

  Robert Pollard

  Running, Writing, Rocks

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Growing Up, Illinois, Far Away

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.

  Zelda Rubinstein

  People, Pennsylvania, Way

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Boys, Cold, Reactions

  "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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