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582 Southern quotes by 461 unique authors

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars. — John Henninger Reagan
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? — John Shelton Reed
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see… — John Shelton Reed
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the… — John Shelton Reed
In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese… — Bubba Sparxxx
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook,… — Hillary Scott
Mitt Romney and I don't agree on every issue and certainly housing is one of them. When you look at what is going on here… — Joe Heck
I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But… — John McCain
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. — Mary Steenburgen
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I… — Ruth Simmons
Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region. — Joe Tex
I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to… — Juno Temple
We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders. — Tom Tancredo
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in… — Gillian Welch
Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night. — Lucas Till
With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're… — Lucas Till
There is such a cool vibe in Nashville. It is has the excitement of a big city, but also has this amazing small town feel.… — Hayden Panettiere
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. — Sam Palladio
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized. — Anson Mount
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's… — Audra McDonald
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was… — Isabel Wilkerson
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern… — William Wilson Morgan
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. — Al Gore
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all… — Tim Cahill

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