South Quotes · Page 10

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

— Nas

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

— Cassie Scerbo

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

— W H Auden

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

— Mary Landrieu

I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.

— Jessie James Decker

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

— Walker Percy

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

— Mark Shields

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.

— LeBron James

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple…

— Anthony Holden

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

— Luther Allison

Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in…

— Charles Duke

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

— David Letterman

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

— Will Durant

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about…

— Buddy Guy

I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made…

— Viola Davis

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs…

— Daniel Pipes

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell…

— Keith Emerson

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for…

— Saul Williams

Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be…

— Sourav Ganguly

America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so…

— Alan Bersin

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south…

— Ambrose Bierce

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who,…

— Adhir Kalyan

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that…

— John Coleman

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put…

— Carl Sagan

If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is…

— Thabo Mbeki

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was…

— Edd Doerr

I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,…

— Rafael Cruz

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be…

— Robert E. Lee

In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed…

— Bob Hawke

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the…

— Johnny Vegas

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

— James Denton

“The South is one big drag show, honey [...].”

— John Berendt

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

— Thabo Mbeki

I love the vibe that I get on the sets of south films.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

— Mohsin Hamid

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

— Anonymous

The South is the last place with a sense of place.

— Lewis Grizzard