343 Southern Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican. Shannen Doherty

Conservative Point Point Of View South Southern Southern Baptist Baptist Republican View

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now. Shashi Tharoor

Fight Water Internet Live AIDS Deforestation Has-Been About Observed Advances Democratic Era Affect Been Southeast Southeast Asia Southern American Africa Pollution Happens Which Against Asia Now Downstream

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. Shelley Berman

Year California Course Am Southern Southern California Graduate Teaching University

I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful. Sissy Spacek

Character People Emotions Wonderful Think Lyrical Types Drawn East More Come West South Southern North Same Just Different Literature Anywhere Interesting Realm Different Types Humans

When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice. Sondra Radvanovsky

Music Flute Signing Would Would-Be Voice Tails Major Heads California Came Up Southern Decide Flipped Coin Program University

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over. Stephen Jackson

Rap Stuff Over South Lot Southern Listened Being Really

Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove. Steve Allen

Buy You Yourself Walk Draw Out Pretend Hat Point Like House Course Around Duck Sheriff West Western Cowboy Southern Donald Donald Duck Accustomed Groove Your

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. Strom Thurmond

Better Mind Whatever Doubt Systems No Doubt Segregation Open Styles South Southern Northern Which Two Honest

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill. Ted Danson

Family Song Drive First Big Ocean Down Summer Saw Kid Sun Would Arizona Over Come Hill Joyous Sing California Always Came Arrive Southern Southern California Moment Near Starting

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. Tom Chatfield

History Writing Words Reading Lasting Emerged Recorded Remained Priests Noble Most Known Around Years Years Ago Province Privilege Southern Human Themselves Who Reserved Monarchs Activities Among Earliest Elite

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders. Tom Tancredo

Country Our Borders Both Through Terrorists Coming Southern Northern

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer. Tom Wolfe

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains. Tony Judt

Money Parents Own Think Spent London Pocket My Own Could Like Underground Western Southern Trains Afford Going Just Being Places Region Much Used Europe Traveling Travelling Railway

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing. Trisha Yearwood

Southern Thing Peanuts

I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food. Trisha Yearwood

Life Food Vegan Meal Every Way Table Eat Had Vegetarian Been Lot Southern Where Experimenting Meat Raised

My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs. Troy Polamalu

Old Parents Uncle Trouble Year Before Older Brother Like California Year-Old Were Years Aunt Lot Southern Sisters Southern California Grade Getting Moved Separated Gangs Older Brother Fourth

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer. Tyler Cowen

Work Democracy Will Rest First Pessimist Unless Stay Fine See Be The First About Give Periphery Greater Answer Fiscal Leave Go Italy Up Greece Southern Just Want Spain Might Euro Union Europe

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

Mother Out Term Dear Lot Southern Short

I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented. W. Kamau Bell

Life Time Happy Words Speak School My Life Beauty Spent High High School Invented Throughout Part True True Beauty Know Most Learned Mastery Greatest How Dialect Lot Southern Junior Junior High Useful Even Lived Ever Alabama

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