South Quotes · Page 29

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

“In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.”

— Robert St. John

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

— Helen Bevington

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

— Patrice Motsepe

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white…

— Helen Suzman

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for…

— Brian Reynolds Myers

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

— Luther Allison

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out…

— Joe Frazier

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's…

— Lucy Alibar

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico…

— Will Rogers

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon…

— Edmund White

Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through…

— Larry J. McKinney

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that…

— William Shakespeare

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask…

— Athol Fugard

If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace…

— Eric Foner

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted…

— Chalmers Johnson

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I…

— Sebastian Junger

Moira sacrificed all that she had and all the richness of life that still lay in front of her in order to…

— James Smith

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality…

— Pearl S. Buck

I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and…

— William Howard Taft

There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that…

— Robert Mugabe

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson…

— Tom Bailey

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice…

— Marcel Proust

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

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

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

— Strom Thurmond

Specifically, I'm from the South Side of Atlanta. It's country, we live in our own little world, but it's cool.

— Latto

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

— Will Rogers

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

— Beth Henley

Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He's got a strong lead.

— Katy Tur

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

— Karen Russell

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

— Madeline Brewer

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

— Nelson Mandela

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9

— Josh Lucas

I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

— Stephen Starr

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a…

— Jan Smuts