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Quotes About South

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Almost everything I have read about Istanbul talks about it as the gateway to the east. We're so programmed to think of it like that but for much of the world, it's the gateway to the west, or even where north meets south.
~ Bettany Hughes
You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.
~ Bret Bielema
He snatches the mask off completely and says, "We came all the way up from Santa Ana to see this shithole and we're not leaving without having a drink." "Santa Ana? Why don't you go back down south and sneak a pint in Disneyland? That'll make you feel edgy too, Beaver Cleaver.
~ Richard Kadrey
Today's residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.
~ Richard Rothstein
Hollywood, a few blocks south of the Palladium, and nearly as big as that super-sized dance hall. It was a low, white building, modern, with the front
~ Richard S. Prather
Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict.
~ Richard Shenkman
Congress also refused to give the South subsidies proportional to those that went to the West and Northeast.
~ Richard White
Sumner asserted that without equality of citizens before the law and full consent of the governed, a government could not be considered republican. It defined a standard that the North no more met than the South.3
~ Richard White
With settlers starting farms in the West, the South rebuilding, and northern industry expanding, the economy would soon need all the available money supply.
~ Richard White
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
~ Richard Wright
Ah, well,? said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ?I have it on good authority there?s going to be a new 'gate? opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ?Oh lord. You?re the one who?s been doling out C4.? ?You make it sound so easy,? he said with a frown. ?That stuff?s hard to get a hold of.
~ Richelle Mead
I have it on good authority there's going to be a new 'gate' opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. "Oh lord. You're the one who's been doling out C4." "You make it sound easy," he said with a frown. "That stuff's hard to get a hold of.
~ Richelle Mead
Ah,well," Said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. "I have it on good authority there's going to be a new 'gate' opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. "Oh lord. You're the one who's been doling out C4." "You make it sound so easy," He said with a frown. "That stuffs hard to get a hold of.
~ Richelle Mead
The captain pointed to the south, and Maya saw a line of icebergs fly into the air as if propelled by explosives, arcing in various directions and falling back onto the ice, breaking into thousands of pieces. "Maybe we'd better back off a little," the captain said. "It would be better for my reputation if we did not get shot out of the sky by an iceberg.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Oh they will. He was a Republican, after all." "Abraham Lincoln was no Republican." "Hello?" "The Republicans in Congress hated him like poison. The goddammed Copperheads did everything they could to sabotage him. They cheered when he was killed, because then they could claim him as a martyr and rip off the South in his name.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Sunday in the south means Church. Sunday in this house, even if we lived in California, would still mean church.
~ Denise Hildreth Jones
The Sparrow flies South for Winter" - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.
~ Amartya Sen
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.
~ Anna Camp
Those of the South had no material cause of complaint; but, actuated by sympathy for their Northern brethren, and a devotion to the principles of civil liberty and community independence, which they had inherited from their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and which were set forth in the Declaration of Independence, they made common cause with their neighbors, and may, at least, claim to have done their full share in the war that ensued.
~ Jefferson Davis
It is evident, therefore, that the people of the South, in the crisis which confronted them in 1860, had no lack either of precept or of precedent for their instruction and guidance in the teaching and the example of our brethren of the North and East. The only practical difference was, that the North threatened and the South acted.
~ Jefferson Davis