Southern Quotes - Page 9

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

The merchant has no country .

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

South Africa is regarded as being an extraordinarily important country - not just for South Africa, but for Southern Africa, for the BRICS, working now in a new way in which power is becoming more shared - thankfully.

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, "Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area."

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.