Southern Quotes

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! (Miley Cyrus)
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. View quote
Edmund Burke
O Love what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure. View quote
Ross Macdonald
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
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. View quote
George Mason
If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary. View quote
Erich von Manstein
There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips. View quote
Walter Scott
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. (Faye Dunaway)
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. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. View quote
Stanley Crouch
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. View quote
Carl L. Becker
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe. View quote
Kenneth Kaunda
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. View quote
Kinky Friedman
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth. View quote
Jefferson Davis
The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl. (Jessica Simpson)
Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. View quote
Harper Lee
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. View quote
Maya Angelou
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. View quote
Donald Trump