343 Southern Quotes for You to Enjoy

Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle. Rhea Perlman

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To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.' Rich Eisen

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before. Richard Carmona

Life Home Law Surgeon My Life Before Statutory Some Law Enforcement General Resumed Arizona Term Came Southern Did Sitting Just After Boards Enforcement Teaching Things Here Career University

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout. Richard Engel

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I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. Richard Ford

Experience Rather Writer Parochial Participate Mississippi Greater Southern Than American American Experience Wanted Decided Urge Larger Early

I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, 'I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.' And sadly, that's apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia. Richard Ojeda

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I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants. Rick Astley

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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. Rickey Medlocke

Will Think Never Knows Rock Repeated Southern Public

We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious. Rickey Medlocke

You Book Fathers Our Brothers Like Looked Rock Were Southern

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry. Robert Boswell

People School Father Farm Typical Churches About Outside Town Principal Dry Lot Southern Elementary Lived Elementary School

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Robert Morgan

Writing Dramatic Poems Poets Narrative Still Southern Forms

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. Robert Wilson

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American. Rod Lurie

Nervous Starts Brits Peers Way Easiest Okay Easiest Way Out Find Freak About Know Accent Genuinely Sound Southern Southern Accent Get Trying American Now Actor

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?' Roger Ross Williams

We do not have a secure border on our southern flank. Ron Johnson

Our Secure Border Southern

The northern border is a different problem set than our southern border. We're not going to put a fence between America and Canada, across Glacier Park. I grew up there. We can use some technological controls. We work with the Canadians more, and there's a lot of property we share, along with tribal lands. Ryan Zinke

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I have huge respect for Sridevi ji as a flag-bearer of the southern film industries in Mumbai for many years. I wish her all the best. And I wish 'Mom' a big success, as the trailer looks very intriguing and promising. S. S. Rajamouli

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. Saul Bellow

Country Down Everything Collected Angeles Objects Had California Loose Tightly Tilted Los Los Angeles Were Been Southern Southern California America Screwed

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation. Scott Borchetta

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker. Scott Borchetta

Me Part California Rocker Up Southern Southern California Just Grew Hollywood

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