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582 Southern quotes by 461 unique authors

I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are… — Albert Parsons
A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west… — Travis Tritt
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a… — Charles Lyell
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries… — Norman Borlaug
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain. — Billy Collins
While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United… — Robert D. Kaplan
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through… — Roy Blount, Jr.
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for… — Bela Fleck
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from — Michael O'Donoghue
Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to… — John Austin Baker
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. — John Shelton Reed
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. — John Shelton Reed
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. — Vince Gill
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they… — James Weldon Johnson
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of… — William H. Seward
One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold… — Lottie Moon
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. — Belle Boyd
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. — John Sergeant Wise
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but… — Allison Glock
I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent. — Nigel Dennis
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. — Willie Morris
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to… — George Mason
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California.… — Parker Stevenson
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser

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