South Quotes

• There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Film
  • Looks
  • Slavery

• South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • About
  • Distribution
  • Repertory

• Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He`s got a strong lead.

  

  Katy Tur
  • Strong
  • Carolina
  • Delegates

• Given that I'm from the South, I wanted to do something to address that. I have been focusing more energy and resources on addressing those issues.

  

  Bryant Terry
  • Energy
  • Issues
  • South

• Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • South

• If state rights and laissez faire meant an end to force bills, removal of Federal troops from Southern state capitals, and abandonment of intervention in local politics and race discriminations, the South was for them strong. On the other hand the South had no patience with state rights and laissez faire if they implied abandonment of Federal subsidies, loans of credit, and internal improvements. Of these the South believed she had not had anything like her just share and she meant to have a lot more.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Rights
  • State
  • South

• When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.

  

  Bert Hellinger
  • Heart
  • Way
  • South

• The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Place
  • Direction
  • South

• To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

  

  Anna Wood
  • Job
  • South
  • Nostalgic

• It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • History
  • Strong
  • Churches

• The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Voice
  • Driven
  • South

• More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Stars
  • Rise
  • South

• I'm addicted to Jack's Wife Freda, a South African - Jewish-inspired restaurant founded by my brother Dean and his amazing wife, Maya. The vibe is cool and relaxed, perfect for a daytime bite or a nightcap. I always get the Peri-Peri chicken and the kale Greek salad, but all the food is delicious. You simply cannot go wrong!

  

  Kara Janx
  • Perfect
  • Restaurants
  • Chickens

• Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.

  

  Thomas Müller
  • Team
  • Roles
  • South

• I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Growing
  • Sunday
  • London

• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  

  William Gibson
  • America
  • Culture
  • Violence

• The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

  

  Erk Russell
  • Chickens
  • Caviar
  • Catfish

• The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • South
  • Appearances
  • Worshipping

• Since the 1970s, international businesses have flocked to the South mostly for the cheap, nonunion labor and reliable quasi-fascist government/business circle-jerk guaranteed by “our orifices are open for business” state and county officials.

  

  Chuck Thompson
  • Labor
  • Businesses
  • International

• Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

  

  Raymond Sokolov
  • America
  • South

• I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

  

  Warren Mundine
  • Machines
  • Corporations
  • Businessman

• North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • South
  • Incessantly

• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Believe
  • West
  • Geography

• And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Women
  • War
  • Horses

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