Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't need to waste anything in south Mississippi.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nora Roberts

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

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Scott Spencer

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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,

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.