Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

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

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.

Gore Vidal

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

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.

Frances Mayes

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

Jeremy Clarkson

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Harper Lee

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

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

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.

Jesse Jackson

We will be there for as long as we have been in South Korea.

Larry Coker

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

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.

In South Park, everyone is in tune with where they live. We're here because we want to be.

In southeast Kansas, a lot of them are part-time,

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Peter Mayle

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Lewis Grizzard

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Kami Garcia

...south of Somewhere and north of Nowhere...

Pat Conroy

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

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.

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.

Michael O'Donoghue

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

Mark Twain

The southerner talks music.