Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Barry Hannah

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Conrad Aiken

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

Doris Lessing

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Donna Tartt

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Damon Albarn

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

Anne Rivers Siddons

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

E. O. Wilson

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

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.

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.