51 Quotes About The-south

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...

We don’t pretend the South has reconcileditself—this is a land that has been built by andtaken from enslaved people. We are committedto having the uncomfortable discussions, tellingthe truth, and letting our curiosity fuel questions,in the name of moving civil liberties, genderequality, and race relations forward. I am merelya photographer and storyteller, but my goal isto shine light on the idea that art and creativityreveal that we are far more alike than different.

It seemed to me a lot of people had marrying on the mind in Louisiana. As if there was something like an unfinished sentence about a woman of 19 traveling alone. Perhaps, in the south, it was just hard to imagine that, “A woman of 19 travels alone.” was a complete sentence.

(Bless her heart's Southern for 'that bitch,' which Meryl was too polite to say out loud.)

You might assume my father is a Republican because he's so old-fashioned. But actually he's a Democrat. In the South, the difference is that Democrats go bird hunting while Republicans go deer hunting.

Maybe I should have got some chili-slaw dogs from Shorty’s. Everybody loves those.” “Buddy,” Lars said, dropping his shoes to the deck with a thump, “sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine.

We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.

While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified their motives in the well of Lost Causism. Politicians found it a bottomless source of bombast and ballots, preachers found it balm and solace to somewhat reluctant middle-class morals, writers found it a noble and salable theme.