Southern Quotes - Page 16

• People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Hero, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  "Mugabe's Hold on Africans". Interview with Peter Biles, news.bbc.co.uk. August 25, 2007.

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• no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  White, Racism, Court

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• Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Summer, Bye, Long

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Two, House, Energy

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• Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Believe, Men

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 117, 1933.

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

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• The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.

  Jessica Simpson

  Girl, Real, Heart

  Song: With You, Album: In This Skin

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• Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Able, Freak

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.44, Macmillan

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• 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, Worms

  Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo (2003). “The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Yummy, Interesting, Tails

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Running, Men

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• 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, Universal Themes

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• 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, Stories

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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• The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Morning, Heart, Guitar

  Federico García Lorca, “The Guitar”

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• If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

  David Neeleman

  Country, Spain, Want

  Source: skift.com

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• After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

  Josh Radnor

  Dog, Mind, Californians

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

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• I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

  Connie Britton

  Country, Rocks, Virginia

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

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Warren Beatty's Homage To Howard Hughes Opens In Theaters On Wednesday". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, kvcrnews.org. November 22, 2016.

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• [Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Saving, Free Will

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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