Famous Quotes & Sayings

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Lou Holtz

This is not about Lou Holtz. This is about South Carolina.

It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.

Southern Utah is having a terrible year, unbelievably bad.

South Carolina, for whatever reasons, has always been a middling school,

Ryan Holmes

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.

Everything in the Southeast right now is kind of coordinated with this.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Pat Conroy

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

Paul Prudhomme

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

Padma Lakshmi

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...

John Green

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Jessica Simpson

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Florence King

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

Flannery O'Connor

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Flannery O'Connor

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Frances Mayes

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

Jefferson Davis

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Scott Spencer

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

Thaddeus Stevens

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Margaret Sanger

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

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Mary Steenburgen

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Paula Deen

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

Lance Bass

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Michael O'Donoghue

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from