Best South Quotes
1547 South quotes by 1099 unique authors
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
— Maya Angelou
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will…
— Unknown Author
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it…
— Charles Kuralt
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Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity,…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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Atlanta is not the South.
— Pimp C
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
— Carl Sagan
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
— Unknown Author
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In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
— John F. Kennedy
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I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to…
— Louis Bleriot
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer…
— Tate Taylor
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
— Mao Zedong
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Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine…
— John W. Campbell
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in…
— Adolf Hitler
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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
— Abraham Lincoln
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My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to…
— Julius Erving
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new…
— Freeman Dyson
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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