An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.
Barry the Baptist: Fucking northern monkeys! Lenny: I hate these fucking southern fairies!
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.
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.
I never really felt like I belonged in California.
California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York.
I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
