Quotes About South

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

The South I knew didn't transcend. I wanted out of there. No future I imagined took place below the southern fall line. "She took the first thing smoking on the runway out of here," my family is fond of remembering. But they forget; there was no runway.

I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: 'There are people for you! Just think—they never go to sleep!' 'And why don't they?' 'Because they're fools.' 'Don't fools get tired, then?' 'How could fools get tired?

I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village: There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep! And why not? Because they never get tired. And why not? Because they're fools. Don't fools get tired? How could fools get tired!---Children on a Country Road, Contemplation.

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember.

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines.

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

If you listen to my music then you've been all through District D. That's the South Side of Houston, Texas. That's where I was born and raised.

It is rare for an artist to get acceptance by the north as well as the south audiences, and I have thankfully managed that.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

At almost exactly the same moment, far to the south, the valley of the Nile is lit up.

Even when there was segregation there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.