No, I’m from the South, remember? We get snow when we’ve done something to upset God, which we don’t do very often.

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three...

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like...

If they asked me, I would do anything for the ‘South Park’ guys.

Every culture has its southerners — people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more...

I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

Yell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us.

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch,...

When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in...

I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if...

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me ‘Calm down.’ Being raped comes next, and that’s a...

Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.

I’m always sketchy of people who don’t like grits.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What...

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got...

I don’t know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That’s a type of fox – South American, I think, with giant ears.

Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who’d been given a choice between being shipped off to the New...

Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons …...

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

We don’t have unions in South Carolina because we don’t need unions in South Carolina.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South to reply that their social condition is the main cause of...

It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it’s going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

I don’t think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you’re going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of...

A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality...

As a citizen of this country, I’ve got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

You’ve got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We’ll see how it all shakes out.

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the...

The birds fly south for the winter not because it’s cold, but because they have wings. Similarly, love has the ultimate flight pattern, and that pattern is plaid.

The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that...

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we’d have long conversations.

I think there’s really strong social stratification in South Asia.

I eat east and west, and I eat them at the same time. But I drink my coffee north to south.

If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The South is like a foreign country to me!