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Quotes About South

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.
~ Johnny Mathis
The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot.
~ Angus Deaton
DMOs help our economy thrive in South Jersey.
~ Jeff Van Drew
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
I'm from Texas and grew up in the South. Very old-school and traditional. Married, had a kid. Suit and tie. The guy next door.
~ Chris Harrison
The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.
~ Sally Mann
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
~ Sam Trammell
The United States would be a more willing container of China, but in the mid-1990s it is unclear how far it will go to contest an assertion of Chinese control over the South China Sea.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Fact is, the Rebels were trapped so tight in their harebrained dream of what the South was, even death wouldn't release them.
~ Sarah Bird
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
~ Yannick Noah
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.
~ William R. Ferris
After all, they were Yankees and no one expected anything better from Yankees. So their unthinking insults to her state, her people and their morals, glanced off and never struck deep enough to cause her more than a well-concealed sneer until an incident occurred which made her sick with rage and showed her, if she needed any showing, how wide was the gap between North and South and how utterly impossible it was to bridge it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Salt cod, morue, had slowly made its way up from peasant food in the south to become an honored French tradition. But not fresh cod.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In the American South, as recently as the 1930s, flying squirrels were so common that there were recipes for them—they were a favorite local dish. But today, flying squirrels are a scarcity because they live only in old-growth forests.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Shepherds say too that it makes a difference to the production of females and the production of males not only if mating occurs during north winds or south winds, but |767a10| also if while copulating the animals look south or north. So small a thing, they say, will sometimes shift the balance, becoming a cause of cold or heat, and these a cause in generation.
~ Aristotle
There's no place like home, especially if it's Serenity, South Carolina.
~ Sherryl Woods
Multe minuni sunt pe lume dar nici una ca inima omului minunat?, el omul care pluteÈ™te dincolo de marea înz?pezit? È™i str?bate dus de vânturile aduc?toare de furtuni ale sudului.
~ Sofocle
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
~ Compton Gage
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.
~ John Shelton Reed
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.
~ John Waters
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.
~ John Whitehead
Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!
~ John Wilkes Booth
former Confederate leaders had begun to regain political power in the South, staging targeted and effective misinformation campaigns to unseat progressive Blacks like Francis who had managed to secure positions of influence during Reconstruction.
~ Barbara Ransby
You are so far south I keep looking down at my thumb. Written on the wrinkled skin just below the joint the neon blue veins fan out flashing the name Utopia.
~ bargen walter ii