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Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest… — Erskine Caldwell
If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus,… — Elizabeth Hawes
Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the… — Henry David Thoreau
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am… — Richard Dawkins
Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known. — Otis Chandler
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. — Ned Sublette
I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts… — Chris Parnell
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I… — Amanda Lindhout
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president… — Gore Vidal
Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia. — Laini Taylor
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent… — A J Liebling
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming… — William H. Seward
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water. — Ed Begley, Jr.
Yes, I'm a real southern boy. — Billy Carter
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to… — Jonathan Raban
I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans. — Johan Lindeberg
Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be… — Dave Hunt
In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives… — Denis Fahey
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee. — Alan Lewis
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious. — Missi Pyle

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