343 Southern Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl. Nicole Scherzinger

Love You Cooking Simple Girl Out Pretty Having Cakes Stuff Know Baking Making Southern Just Chilling Down-Home

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. Niger Innis

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I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent. Nikki DeLoach

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One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. Nina Easton

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The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime. Octavia Spencer

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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely. Omar N. Bradley

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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. Parker Posey

Glad New She Left Very Southern Southerner York Move New York

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. Parker Stevenson

Saying Me You School First Young Everyone Lifeguard Student Pictures California Surprise Southern Southern California Did Prep Played Two

The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. Paul Watson

Natural Ocean Opposing No Reason Fact Disaster Because Southern Whaling Just Stop Just Because Natural Disaster Japan Us Reason Illegal Activities

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment. Paula Deen

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I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in. Paula Hawkins

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I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long. Penn Badgley

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In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power. Peter Bergen

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My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to. Peter Capaldi

Home Great You People Wonderful School Mother Made Big Kind Kinds Pot Could Came Go Were Italian Mixing Lots Southern Spaghetti Your Granny Mum Thing

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. Peter Steele

Me Space Intimate Fine Seems More Like Lot Southern Person Personal Just Whereas Mile Europeans Nearest Socially

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor. Phillipa Soo

Mom Experience Doctor Parents Own Born My Own Involved Terms She Were His Southern Arts China Illinois Dad Raised

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate. Preston Sturges

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I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well. Pruitt Taylor Vince

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In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern. Rachael Stirling

Whatever Feel Combination Like Always Scotland Southern Yorkshire Mum Bones

I'm still true to my Southern roots. Randy Jackson

True Still Southern Roots

The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie - the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents. Rebecca Traister

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I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California. Rene Russo

Love Girl Sense Restore California Southern Southern California Place

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. Reynolds Price

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