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.
Patna has been one of the oldest continuously inhabited riverine cities in the world situated at the Southern bank of river Ganga.
— Nancy Nancy, in Thesis synopsis-Patna: A historic riverine city more, academia.edu, 2013
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.
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.)
I wished that I were the owner of every Southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
thaddeus stevens— Statement at the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (July 1837), quoted in Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South (1959) by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 63
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.
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.
— David Noel Freedman, "The Anchor Bible Dictionary", Doubleday, 1992, p. 1093
As to a Southern Continent, I do not believe any such thing exists, unless in a high altitude.
Captain James Cook— 1768-71 Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage Round the World made in H. M. Bark'Endeavour'.
The wonderful Southern night-sky that makes a man feel so lonely, alien: with Orion standing on his head in the west, and his sword-belt upside down, and his Dog-star prancing in mid-heaven, high above him; and with the Southern Cross insignificantly mixed in with the other stars, democratically inconspicuous.
d. h. lawrence— 1923 Of night over Sydney. Kangaroo, ch.1.
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).
We're both strong, and there's something that all Southern women have in common — the survivor instinct.
— Of her character Joy Turner in My Name Is Earl.
“‘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)
In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
bill moyers— "Help", speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (3 March 2007), in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 99
Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.
— Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p.9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
King Cotton, phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production. After the invention of the cotton gin (1793), cotton surpassed tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the agricultural economy of the South, soon comprising more than half the total U.S. exports.
— The Editors of The Encyclopædia Britannica, in King Cotton, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,16 January 2014.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in Southern Africa.
james a. michener— The Covenant (1980) First lines
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean
najib razak— Quoted on BBC News, "Flight MH370 'crashed in south Indian Ocean' - Malaysia PM", March 24, 2014.
Auspicious Prince! at whose nativity Some royal planet rul'd the Southern sky; Thy longing country's darling and desire; Their cloudy pillar, and their guardian fire: Their second Moses, whose extended wand Divides the seas, and shows the promis'd land: Whose dawning day, in very distant age, Has exercis'd the sacred prophet's rage: The people's pray'r, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
john dryden— Pt. I line 230-239.
Now I love to feel that warm Southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.
ben harper— Steal My Kisses
Wisdom: The first error is that of the Southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. … give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps to the south and the jungles to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man:
C. S. Lewis— Pilgrim’s Regress 117
O Love, what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and Southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize, and vine.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Daisy, Stanza 1.
The Southern Democrats are in the saddle and the northern Democrats must tag along as best they may, no matter what ill may betide.
— John Jacob Rogers, remarks in the House (May 2, 1913), Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 42
