#southern

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#above #approve #be nice #better #comes

Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I’m a Southern woman. ↗

— Patricia H. Graham

#southern-culture #family

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#border #cannot #companies #complicity #enforce

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bit #british #british empire #did #empire

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#europe #future #living #must #observe

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#basin #hypothesis #i #indications #long

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. ↗

— John McCarthy

#drinks #hardly #hemisphere #northern #noticed

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

#best #big #big band #california #college

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#appeal #away #blacks #far #far away

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#losing #never #resist #southerners