Quotes of: Southern Keyword

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Robert Morgan

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

Joan Van Ark

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn. Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness w...

Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments

<...> slaves became the major form of Southern wealth (aside from land), and slaveholding became the means to prosperity. <...> The later impoverishment of the South nourished the myth that the slave economy had always been historically “backward,�...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and--in spite of True Romance magazines --we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely --at least, not all the time --but ...

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

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

Magic in the Backyard

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Bobby McFerrin

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

Paula Deen

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Karin Slaughter

I will never apologize for my Southern accent...it just may be my greatest asset.

Lola Faye Arnold

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Laurie Metcalf

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

Mario Draghi

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

Malcolm Turnbull

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

Faith Hill

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

Christopher Lee

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Paul D. Boyer

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

Aaron Paul

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

Cate Blanchett

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

Werner Herzog