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  • Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

    Husband   Mean   Southern  
  • In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

    Country   Sadness   Men  
  • Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

  • I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

    Home   Cutting   Rocks  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

    Dream   Usa   California  
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1984). “European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
  • And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

    "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.
  • While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

  • Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

    Fate   Europe   America  
    Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.56
  • The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

  • I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

    Boys   Southern   Cold  
    "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.
  • My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

    Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.102, Wildside Press LLC
  • It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

  • I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

  • Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

    War   Roots   Southern  
  • Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

    Strong   Race   White  
    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation
  • The merchant has no country .

  • If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

  • Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

    Mother   Hands   Southern  
  • Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

    Military   Gun   Southern  
  • Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

    Teacher   Play   Two  
  • George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  • I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

    Girl   Track   Southern  
  • The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

    War   Son   Player  
    "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".
  • We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.

  • When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

    War   Mean   White  
    "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.
  • When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

    "Damehood. A cosy name that conceals some dubious choices" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2015.
  • A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

    Night   Men   People  
    Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
  • I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

    Song   Spring   Sky  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”
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