South Quotes
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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
Flannery O'Connor -
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that 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.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor -
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
Ida B. Wells -
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
Billy Joel -
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?
Umar -
I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
William S. Burroughs -
I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
Paris Hilton -
'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
Laura Osnes -
I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda
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The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!
Brother Dave Gardner -
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
Young Buck -
I love everything about the South; I even love hate.
Brother Dave Gardner -
As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
Barry Jenkins -
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.
Flannery O'Connor -
You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
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South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.
P. W. Botha -
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."
Bruce McCall -
In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.
Kimberly Schlapman -
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
Barry Hannah