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Quotes About South

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
~ Carlos Castaneda
I may never see my daughter again. My son says he has no intentions of ever coming back to the cursed south again. A part of me admires him for his conviction; the other part wants to shake him until his teeth rattle even though he's a grown man.
~ Carolyn Brown
I live just south of the poetic,/where the glaciers stopped short, sloped down/to nothing
~ Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Guerillas? There are guerillas here in Dixie?" It was lucky I was looking down. I thought he meant "gorillas" for a minute, and I was having a picture in my head that was crazy wonderful. Then my brain translated.
~ Charlaine Harris
I love the South, don't get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm working on this documentary. It's called 'Walking Home With Baby,' and when I say 'Walking Home With Baby,' it's a hood in Memphis. This is where I come from. This is my hood in Memphis - the South of Memphis.
~ Moneybagg Yo
Well, my family used to live in Atlanta a few years back so I always had a good relationship with all the artists down there, as well as artists from Houston and Memphis, before the South took over, I was already like a family member of the South so there's always love.
~ Jadakiss
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It's not serious.
~ Wynton Marsalis
The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema halls and later the larger audience too stopped going.
~ Saswata Chatterjee
Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don't know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.
~ J. D. Martinez
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.
~ Jonathan Miles
The perpetual demonization of the South and Southerners is part and parcel of the Lincoln myth. The continued demonization of everything Southern is part of the gatekeepers' strategy to keep the public from ever becoming curious about alternative interpretations of nineteenth-century history.
~ Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.
~ Kathy Reichs
You don't know hell till you stand in a damp dance hall in South Armagh as the crowd sing along to "Surfing Safari".
~ Ken Bruen
Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of "reconciliation" between the sections, "material reconstruction" of the South, and a way of restoring "mutual respect and affection" at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.
~ C. Vann Woodward
IT WAS CUSTOMARY in the South for outside observers to interpret events in terms of ideology (usually racial ideology) and for local observers to interpret the same events in terms of money (usually graft).
~ Calvin Trillin
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
~ Genevieve Gorder
Johnson signed on. He was resolved not to be "the president who saw Southern Asia go the way China went," he said. "I want [the South Vietnamese] to get off their butts and get out into those jungles and whip the hell out of some communists," he said. "And then I want 'em to leave me alone, because I've got some bigger things to do right here at home.
~ Geoffrey C. Ward
After reviewing how denominational strife had led to war and while admitting the guilt of many Confederates, a Baptist preacher concluded that "faith once delivered to the Saints has been maintained in its integrity and purity throughout the States of the South.
~ George C. Rable
two thousand or more Spaniards sailing toward that long, narrow South American country that clung to the mountains so as not to topple into the sea.
~ Isabel Allende
If a special economic zone worked as I do believe it would in the North, then hopefully we could extend it further south. It could certainly have benefits for an even wider area of Australia.
~ Gina Rinehart
We sing about the North, but live as far south as possible.
~ J. B. McGeachy
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to the edge of the field, and the doves' breasts are grilled - usually swaddled in bacon, maybe with a jalapeno tucked inside - as the hunters tell and retell tales of the day's shooting.
~ Jonathan Miles