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Quotes About South

Hillary Clinton, who followed her heart to Arkansas, understands that the American Dream extends beyond the Mason-Dixon line and that South Carolina's motto, 'While I breathe, I hope,' applies to all.
~ Jaime Harrison
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
~ Stef Wertheimer
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
~ Wayne Huizenga
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
~ Herman Melville
Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
~ Fritz Sauckel
But Djoser was king of South Egypt and North Egypt. To keep the people in both parts of the country happy he had to be buried in two different tombs. His body was entombed in the north, and his canopic jars had their own temple 100 metres to the south.
~ Terry Deary
My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.
~ Stephen Thompson
Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.
~ Nikki Haley
A person like Roy Nelson, a lot of people can relate to him. A lot of Americans look like him, especially where I come from in the South.
~ Quinton Jackson
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
~ Claudette Colvin
Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
~ John Singleton
There is something about the fans in the South . . . they're insane. They're wilder and louder than the East and the West.
~ Nikki Sixx
South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.
~ Colson Whitehead
Stubborn breaks when it don't bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. Kindly in that they didn't see fit to kill you fast. One thing about the south, it was not patient when it came to killing negroes. In
~ Colson Whitehead
Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.
~ W E B Du Bois
As for reading books, even far-out books, even beatnik books, fine. Only there are not enough books for me down South, which is one reason I came to New York.
~ Langston Hughes
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
~ Laura Linney
The farther south he went, the more concerned Magellan became that he had accidentally passed the strait.
~ Laurence Bergreen
After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan located a rumored passage near the southern tip of South America.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.
~ Celia Rivenbark
After investigating matters connected with my operation, I returned to Panhandle City, where Glen Alpine, Jr., was mounted, and a start made south.
~ Charles A. Siringo
Lee had a low opinion of black abilities, and thought that Virginia would be better off it its freed black population now migrated south into the Cotton States. On the other hand, four years before the war he had written, "Slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any country," and in a postwar conversation he was to say, "I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
~ Charles Bracelen Flood
They started inviting me into the Messina Club at Tenth and Tasker, which is a members-only joint where you get the best sausage and peppers you ever ate. You'd play cards there; just hang out without the public citizens being at the next table. It's still there, and it still has the best sausage and peppers in all of South Philly. A
~ Charles Brandt