Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Sanger

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

Michael Stipe

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

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.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Nora Roberts

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Mark Twain

The southerner talks music.

Michael O'Donoghue

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

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

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".

Frances Mayes

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

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.

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.

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.

Gore Vidal

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

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.

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.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Pat Conroy

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

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.