Best Southern Wisdom
582 Southern quotes by 461 unique authors
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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as…
— Mark Twain
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People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach…
— Geert Hofstede
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I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors…
— Kara Walker
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I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner
— Carrie Underwood
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In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up…
— Judy Bonds
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Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
— John Oliver
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in…
— Connie Britton
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After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once…
— Josh Radnor
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
— Walton Goggins
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The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.
— Liu Bei
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
— Walter Scott
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There are organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center, there are some private investigators that work for the Republican Establishment, that actually use technology to hack…
— Matt Shea
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I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic,…
— Ronnie Montrose
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I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and…
— Debi Mazar
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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have…
— Gerrit Smith
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Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy…
— Greg Walden
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we…
— Winston Churchill
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. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest…
— Neal Shusterman
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But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer…
— Louis Agassiz
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And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the…
— John McCain
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The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced…
— Joe Slovo
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If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions…
— Edgar Cayce
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It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
— James A. Michener
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