Quotes of South - somelinesforyou

“ Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ”

- Taslima Nasrin

“ In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ”

- Max de Pree

“ Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia. ”

- Daniel Pipes

“ If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ”

- Alan Paton

“ I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. ”

- Alan Paton

“ I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama. ”

- Michelle Rodriguez

“ I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ”

- Miriam Makeba

“ 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

“ If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ I once killed a man down south, Alex! ”

- Ken Jennings

“ The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye. ”

- E. B. White

“ I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ”

- Reynolds Price

“ The most important direction we can go isn't east or west or north or south, it is inside ourselves. There is a path to your own heart, your own treasure chest, and I would like you to follow it. ”

- Bernie Siegel

“ The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. ”

- John Whitehead

“ We don't do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina. It's nothing personal, but it takes a while to get over things. ”

- Lindsey Graham

“ It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. ”

- Strom Thurmond

“ When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ Well, South Carolina isn't exactly a bastion of openmindedness. ”

- Andy Richter

“ Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ”

- Mike Rounds

“ Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. ”

- Ouida

“ I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. ”

- Mitchell Burgess

“ In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations. ”

- Farnsworth Crowder
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