Southern Quotes - Page 2

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I’ll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.