#south

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #south




In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.


Desmond Tutu


#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life.


Brandi L. Bates


#life-lessons #raw-foods #southern-fiction #sunsets #the-south

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.


Terri Windling


#desert #did #extent #girl #had

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter'. He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk.


Tom Wolfe


#because #called #desk #editor #father

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.


Margaret Mitchell


#male-female-relationships #southern-women #humor

Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes of every person I meet. This awareness informs the flesh of my stories. Grief has been an odd companion, at first a terror, but now I am all the better having accepted it for its intrinsic worth.


Patricia Hickman


#outer-banks #southern-fiction #southern-writers #inspirational

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.


Nick Lampson


#area #being #bring #committee #create

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.


Mary Landrieu


#care #city #coast #education #extraordinary

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


#dream #golf #home #interrupting #know

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.


Alan Lewis


#easier #games #hemisphere #means #more