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Quotes About South

Delta to Control, any sniper teams to the south of Embry? Any Gears at all?
~ Karen Traviss
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
~ Ike Turner
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
~ Ouida
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
~ Loretta Lynn
While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
~ Daniel D. Emmett
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
~ Pope Francis
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
~ Brooks Hays
Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
~ Kim Jong Il
East or West, Home is BestNorth or South, Hand to Mouth
~ Doctor You
the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic
~ William C. Davis
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
~ William Faulkner
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.
~ David Ebershoff
Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.
~ David Ebershoff
He [Dean Rusk] was a rare person in that era... "Well, of course, in the South, most of us as we were growing up just took for granted that if there was to be trouble, if the nation was at war, that we would be in it. The tradition of the Civil War was still with us very strongly... We assumed there was a military duty to perform... We took that as a perfectly natural part of being an American." p315
~ David Halberstam
Lincoln replied that his strategy was just right, but he added tartly: "Please look over the despatches you may have rece[i]ved from here... and discover, if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any one here, of 'putting our army South of the enemy' or of [']following him to the death' in any direction." "I repeat to you," the President insisted, "it will neither be done nor attempted unless you watch it every day, and hour
~ David Herbert Donald
King spoke of how the Pilgrimage would be an appeal to the nation, and the Congress, to pass a civil rights bill that would give the Justice Department the power to file law suits against discriminatory registration and voting practices anywhere in the South.
~ David J. Garrow
Everyone who has never been to the South, and especially Northern journalists, are experts on that part of the country. Trained reporters who wouldn't dare venture an opinion on Iraq or Pakistan because they've never worked in those countries are happy to tell you about life in Dothan or Bainbridge, because, well, everybody knows what those people are like down there.
~ David K. Kirby
Robbie Robertson of the Band said he always knew when they were playing in the south, because that's where everybody claps on the backbeat. Exactly.
~ David K. Kirby
This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.
~ David Livingstone
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.
~ Sean Hannity