Quotes About South

In no event shall any environmental regulations or standards of South Dakota be applicable to this project.

And I'm clueless as to why Southern lesbians are always growing up queer-gorgeous-and-damned-funny, except that maybe things are a lot different in the South.

Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked. Yes, but their mothers are blonde.

70 per cent to avoid a humiliating defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor) – 20 per cent to keep South Vietnam (and the adjacent territory) from Chinese hands – 10 per cent to permit the people of South Vietnam to enjoy a better, freer way of life'.

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

But Trevanion would not listen. "I travel south," he said, his voice heavy. "And I will do all I can, Finnikin, to convince you to travel with me rather than take a path that may destroy you." "If you travel south, I am already destroyed," Finnikin said.

The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

We know that power is shifting from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace.

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens...

Even fervent abolitionists, viewing blacks as equal in rights but inferior socially and culturally, didn't relish having freedmen come north to live beside them but wanted them to stay down south.

But the ruined South—the war had cost it $13.6 billion—wanted its cotton, its only source of income and still the nation's major export commodity, amounting to nearly two-thirds of U.S. exports by 1889 and three-quarters of the world's supply.11

The serfdom was as much a cultural as an economic matter. "Slavery is so strong that it could exist, not only without law, but even against law," Frederick Douglass lamented. "Customs, manners, morals, religion, are all on its side everywhere in the South.

When eugenicists thought of degenerates, they automatically focused on the South. To make his point, Davenport said outright that if a federal policy regulating immigration was not put in place, New York would turn into Mississippi.

Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.

Though Johnson had a proven record as a New Dealer and modern progressive, on the national stage he was still regarded as a regional figure. He refused to go easy on white rule in the South.

The carpetbagger, a rapacious adventurer feeding off the prostrate South, could be identified by the cheap black valise he carried. Worse than the carpetbagger, though, was the "scalawag," a betrayer. He was a southern white Republican who had sold his soul (and sold out his race) for filthy lucre.

His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

It is in no small part to Henry's resistance that the Constitution owes the Second Amendment in particular—the one that promises "the right to keep and bear arms" in order to have "a wellregulated militia"—and it too was, in part, about slavery, because in the South, the militia was understood to be identical with the slave patrols that were constantly on guard.