Southern Quotes - Page 31

• I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Church, Baptists, Southern Baptist

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• My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

  Cheryl Hines

  Mom, Real, Ifs

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• I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

  Josh Lucas

  Broken, Accents, Hard

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• I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Opposites, Hollywood

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• I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

  Brad Paisley

  Comfort, World, Zone

  Song: Southern Comfort Zone, Album: Wheelhouse, 2013

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• One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Powerful, War, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

  Ann Patchett

  Love You, Winning, Two

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.1170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

  Brooke Burns

  Girl, Men, Doors

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• I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

  Larry Wilmore

  Fire, Guilt, Comedy

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

  Jaime Pressly

  Girl, Hollywood, Want

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• I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

  Fred Armisen

  New York, Years, Two

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

  Molly Ivins

  Lying, Believe, Race

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage

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• In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

  Richard Wright

  Heart, Night, Light

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Pockets, Racist

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• To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Southern Italy, Spain, Influence

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• Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Dream, Usa, California

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1984). “European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I’ll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

  Carrie Underwood

  Hair, Eyeliner, Bigs

  "Carrie Underwood Wants 'Big Hair' on Her Wedding Day" by Blaine Zuckerman, people.com. January 06, 2010.

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• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Wine, Europe, Cheese

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• My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Fall, Tired, Reality

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• I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Comedy, Used

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• O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

  Walt Whitman

  Blood, Evil, And Love

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.408, NYU Press

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• I hate these people, the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere, for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.

  Fred Dryer

  Hate, California, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dad, Father

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