South Quotes · Page 53

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and…

— Louise Slaughter

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

— Priyamani

If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those…

— Rush Limbaugh

People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,…

— Sara Henderson

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

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

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the…

— Melvin Laird

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it.…

— Patti Smith

In the South, you can't say you're hurting. You can't cry, so you lash out.

— Shea Whigham

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

— Charley Pride

In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American…

— Mark Earley

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

— James Smith

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

— Jon Stewart

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat.…

— Ice T

Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids,…

— Rebecca West

Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low…

— Ishmael Reed

Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the…

— Wang Wei

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

— Frankie Avalon

The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South…

— Ice Cube

If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that…

— Garry Kasparov

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did…

— George Washington Carver

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but…

— Steve Martin

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

— Tom Daschle

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

— Lord Byron

They [ Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] will fully understand. They're economic behemoths. They're tremendously successful countries, but we're subsidizing them…

— Donald Trump

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in…

— Tye Sheridan

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at…

— Yochai Benkler

The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If…

— Henry David Thoreau

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

— Ronan Farrow

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels.…

— Kit Williams

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one…

— Gertrude Atherton

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

— Benazir Bhutto

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

— Bill Engvall

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born…

— Nguyen Cao Ky

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

— Charles Sturt

I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have…

— Patrick Stewart

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa.…

— Thabo Mbeki