Quotes of: Southern-california Keyword

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

Zooey Deschanel

In 2006 I had begun the discernment process for locating my rightful geographic home. By the time my corporate pink slip arrived I had spent two years researching and taking recon trips to five different cities in southern California. Having crossed ...

Belly Up: Surviving and Thriving Beyond a Cruise Gone Bad

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the years following Brown v. Board of E...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you're not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the comfort of it, or to reinvent themselves, and maybe creative people are natural searchers, searching for...

State of the Arts: California Artists Talk about Their Work

If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.

RUSH Book Two: California Nights

Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies. The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.

Having It Y'All: An Insider's Guide to Life Southern Style

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

I was born the same year the greatest automobile in the history of automobiles was created, the 1957 Chevrolet. Thank God only one of us had tail fins.

Prisoner of Southern Rock: A Memoir

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

Paula Deen

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

Kenny Chesney

The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Democrats must identify up-and-coming leaders and build a bench of strong potential candidates up and down the ballot.

Ronnie Musgrove

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the South...

Benjamin E. Mays

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern...

Juno Temple

I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.

Marisa Miller

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

Joan Didion

One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, . Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in...

The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

Catherine Crier

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967