Southern Quotes - Page 18

• My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil and gas exploitation are doing to our public lands that belong to all Americans. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. The Secretary of the Interior is urging the Bureau of Land Management to support the gas and oil industry's most extreme drilling scenario in some of the American West's most pristine and fragile areas without proper legal and public input.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Support, Management

  Source: progressive.org

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• In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.

  Barbara Crossette

  Girl, Country, Strong

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Hemisphere, Captains

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• I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.

  Lauren Groff

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• In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Origin Of Life, Humanity

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• 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

  United States, Constitution, Compromise

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• As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Husband, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, Age

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

  Willie Parker

  Black, Black Women, Raised

  "This Bible Belt Abortion Provider Is Looking Beyond Trump". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2016.

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• Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
  Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky;
  The May-thorn greening in the nook;
  The minnows sporting in the brook;
  The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers;
  The song of birds amid the bowers;
  The crystal of the azure seas;
  The music of the southern breeze;
  And, over all, the blessed sun,
  Telling of halcyon days begun.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Summer, Song, Flower

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

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• Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Years, White, Adults

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Spices, Vinegar

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."

  William Kristol

  Party, School, Two

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Years, Tails

  Interview With Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.

  William Gibson

  Evil, Age, Awareness

  Source: craphound.com

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• I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Nice, Thinking

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• I just don't seem to be capable of believing in evil as some separate, distinct power within itself. I guess I'm just not a Southern Baptist or a Fundamentalist. I just don't seem to be capable of believing in it myself, somehow. I don't . . . I can't conceive from my experience how this force of evil can exist without the force of love being right there.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Believe, Love Is, Evil

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• I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

  Luke Grimes

  Ohio, Cleveland, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

  Paula Deen

  Magic, Secret, Use

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• Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Kissing, French Kiss

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jan 25, 2013

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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• As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Summer, Mother, Father

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• The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

  Kami Garcia

  Sunday, Church, Baptists

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• What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

  Nora Roberts

  Honey

  Nora Roberts (2004). “Blue Dahlia”, p.110, Penguin

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