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Southern Quotes by Mark Twain
- Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night,…
- 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.
- In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
- 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…
- There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel,…
- The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by…
More Southern Quotes
- Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard
- In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't… — Saul Bellow
- I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France. — Yogi Berra
- I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do… — Halle Berry
- In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I… — Omar N. Bradley
- Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We… — Bear Bryant
- It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help… — James Buchan
- Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right… — Tony Campolo
- Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. — Billy Carter
- I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians… — Jimmy Carter
- My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. — Fred Allen
- As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and… — John Henrik Clarke