Southern Quotes
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The southern most district and the capital of Kerala, God’s own country, one who visits Thiruvananthapuram, visits heaven experiencing the ecstasy of being here.
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More Southern Quotes
It was a walled city and the European trading companies settled outside the fort area all along the river front. The city developed in three phases during the European influence and the British rule: First along the river front, Next on the Southern side of Maidan to railway station and Third after being made the capital of the province of Bihar along the Bailey road, the new capital area.
Nancy Nancy— Thesis synopsis-Patna: A historic riverine city more
Representing the people of Oregon's Second District is an honor and a privilege. Covering more than 70,000 square miles in twenty counties throughout eastern, Southern and central Oregon, our district is breathtaking and diverse.
— Greg Walden, Welcome Message, United States House of Representatives, page, United States Congressman Greg Walden.
Representing the people of Oregon's Second District is an honor and a privilege. Covering more than 70,000 square miles in twenty counties throughout eastern, Southern and central Oregon, our district is breathtaking and diverse.
— Greg Walden, Welcome Message, United States House of Representatives, page, United States Congressman Greg Walden.
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.
Lee De Forest— Interviewed by Frank Parker Stockbridge, "The Man Who Made Radio Talk", Popular Science Monthly, May 1929
Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.
harper lee— On why she has done her best creative thinking while playing golf, as quoted in Time (12 May 1980)
I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour.
william ellery channing— New England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. Young Hodge the Drummer never knew Fresh from his Wessex home The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose to nightly view Strange stars amid the gloam. Yet portion of that unknown plain Will Hodge forever be; His homely Northern breast and brain Grow to some Southern tree, And strange-eyed constellations reign His stars eternally.
thomas hardy— Drummer Hodge (1899), lines 1-18, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901).
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.
sam hinton— "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" (Possibly an allusion to his recording of "Old Man Atom" ("Atomic Talking Blues") by Vern Partlow.)
Mysore is the second-largest city in Karnataka,...and a district and divisional capital. It is also one of the fastest growing cities in Southern India, with new manufacturing and software industries establishing production facilities.
— G.N.Ramu, in "Brothers and Sisters in India: A Study of Urban Adult Siblings", p.41
I would rather sleep in the Southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
— Edmund Burke, letter to Matthew Smith.
Southern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaf and blood at the rootBlack bodies swingin’ in the Southern breezeStrange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.
Billie Holiday— "Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.
michael malone— January Magazine (January 2002).
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
Randall Jarrell— Ch. 2, p. 66
“‘Naive’ is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive.” “I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive.” “This is why I have no politics,” said Darvin. “I can’t think in those terms.”
ken macleod— Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 237)
The cover pirated the pictures on the Southern pamphlet and headlined a story whose title, “Invasion from Infinity!,” bore witness to a brash disdain of doing right as much as of blithe contempt for having been proved wrong.
ken macleod— Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 264)
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men now in power in this country who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.
— John V. Lindsay, mayor of New York City, speech at University of California, Berkeley (April 2, 1970), as reported by The Washington Post (April 3, 1970), p. 3.
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
— Kenneth Grahame, in The Wind in the Willows p.206
He votes as a Southern man, and votes sectionally; I am also a Southern man, but vote nationally on national questions.
— Thomas Hart Benton, reported in Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton (1897, reprinted 1968), chapter 15, p. 349.
The first Greek-speaking people in the Southern Balkan Peninsula arrived in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus sometime after 2600 B.C. and developed, probably due to the extreme mountainous nature of the country, their several different dialects.
— The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992) p. 1093.
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of Southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
— "Mugabe's hold on Africans". BBC News. 25 August 2007.
Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there! Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him; To a boon Southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine.
Matthew Arnold— St. 18. (Thyrsis (1866))
I would rather sleep in the Southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Edmund Burke— Letter to Matthew Smith
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm Southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light Good-night, dear heart, good-night, good-night.
mark twain— Epitaph for his daughter, Olivia Susan Clemens (1896), this is actually a slight adaptation of the poem "Annette" by Robert Richardson; more details are available at "The Poem on Susy Clemens' Headstone"
Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a Southern wall.
william cowper— William Cowper, Retirement, line 493
With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears; God of the Southern winds, call up thy gales, And whistle in rude fury round his ears.
— Philip Freneau, Arnold's Departure.
According to most reliable information, a secret meeting was held yesterday at Comi in Southern Bulgaria[...] to draw up plans for a general rising in Greek Macedonia, with the ultimate object of incorporating that region with Salonica in an autonomous Macedonia under Yugoslav hegemony.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 19, 1946
You neglect and belittle the desert. The desert is not remote in Southern tropics The desert is not only around the corner, The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you, The desert is in the heart of your brother.
— T. S. Eliot, in The Rock (1934)
The Portuguese had undertaken their voyages towards the Southern hemisphere in spite of the science of their day... they followed an irresistible urge, which went against their scientific and religious convictions.
— Reijer Hooykaas, "The Portuguese Discoveries and the Rise of Modern Science" in Selected Studies in History of Science (1983)
