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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion… — Flannery O'Connor
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want?… — Clark Gable
Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans. — Unknown Author
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness,… — Unknown Author
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern… — Isham G. Harris
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other… — Andrew Johnson
Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in… — George Mason
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or… — Lajos Kossuth
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. — Mark Twain
The merchant has no country . — Thomas Jefferson
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is… — Thomas Jefferson
We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New… — Jesse Jackson
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then… — Charles Kuralt
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North. — Tom Landry
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun. — Paul Prudhomme
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. — John Shelton Reed
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never… — William Tecumseh Sherman

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