Southern Quotes - Page 21

• The southern wind
  Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
  And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
  Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Play, Purpose

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.743, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.

  Norman Reedus

  Thinking, Yelling, People

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Europe, Courses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All over the world, I do business. I make great deals. I've made hundreds of millions of dollars against China. All over the world I make money and I build great things. Who's going to build a wall like me on the southern border? I built a great company.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Dollars

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Country, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.

  Grumpy Cat

  Fans, Hemisphere, Interest

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• People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Retirement, Pain

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Land, Water

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• Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
  Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
  A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
  Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
  Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
  Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

  William Davenant

  Nice, Men, Sight

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• There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

  Sally Mann

  Artist, Numbers, Obsession

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• There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

  Carolyn Wells

  Friendship, Book, Giving

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• One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Ideas, Brain

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment.
  The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Black And White, Common Humanity

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• It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.

  Bell Hooks

  Growing Up, Home, Night

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• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Reading, Dark, Sky

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• I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

  Paul Mooney

  Grandmother, Thinking, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

  Nancy Grace

  Father, Men, Years

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• Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Sarcastic, Men, Guy

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

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• I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

  John Lee Mahin

  Women, Up North, Needs

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• In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Teaching, Phones

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• Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

  David Simon

  Moving, College, Essence

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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