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For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out. — Suzanne Somers

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. — Norman Mailer

There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say. — Kami Garcia

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. — Victor Hugo

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? — John Shelton Reed

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China. — Li Keqiang

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico. — John Kennedy Toole

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made. — Hank Williams Jr.

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say. — Bui Diem

Mhisery took a deep breath, gave a small smirk along with a wink and said, "What are you waiting for? The South to rise again, fuck me! — Shyloh Morgan

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course. — Flannery O'Connor

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan. — Pope Francis

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. — Hubert H. Humphrey

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. — Ferial Haffajee

Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella. — Kellie Elmore

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party — Nelson Mandela

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. — Dennis Prager

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. — River Phoenix

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way — Louis L'Amour

Escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South — Sue Monk Kidd

Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being. — Clyde Edgerton

Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon — Tim Dorsey

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. — T. S. Eliot

My face is melting. The goopy blob that was my forehead is slipping south, its molten heat softening everything in its path. — T.R. Burns

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification. — Kim Jong Il

Charlotte is a city with both feet planted firmly in the New South, with the emphasis on the 'new'. — Harry Hoover

O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North. — Alfred Tennyson

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country. — David Cross

I grew up in the South and went to church a lot. — Patrick Wilson

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. — Peter Cook

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories. — Sean Taylor

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint. — Maryln Schwartz

Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella. — Lynn Blackmar

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum. — Les Dawson

A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. — Barbara Kingsolver

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. — Richard Stanley

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. — Willie Morris

We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn't much. — H.P. Lovecraft

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

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup. — Thomas Muller

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. — Dave Matthews

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly. — Robert Harling

I won't tell if you don't." I winked.
Granny laughed.
In the South, a wink speaks louder than words. — Tonya Kappes

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South. — Josh Lucas

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina. — Lindsey Graham

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary. — Mark Shields

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country. — Shelby Lynne

Murdering anything is just plain criminal, but a Southerner murdering a magnolia? Well, that's an unforgivable sacrilege against nautre and the South. — Beth Hoffman

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south. — Bill Engvall

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South

Maybe he was the anti-Santa, of the South Pole, and he was going to show them where the elves made lumps of coal for Anti-Christmas. — Lev Grossman

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon. — Walid Jumblatt

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture. — Bobbie Ann Mason

In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law. — Ilana Mercer

it was the largest such action to ever take place in South Africa; over 1,500,000 million workers took part — Anonymous

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. — James A. Michener

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. — Herman Melville

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities. — Danielle Brooks

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

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm. — Bob Dylan

That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read. — Haruki Murakami

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South. — Mick Jagger

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean. — Mathias Rust

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory. — Douglas Alexander

I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. — Florence King

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue. — Pat Conroy

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. — Emily Giffin

Okay, I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter. — John Connolly

If they asked me, I would do anything for the 'South Park' guys. — Marc Jacobs

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference — Niq Mhlongo

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. — Robert South

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes. — David Sedaris

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection. — Bruce Feiler

I love everything about the South; I even love hate. — Brother Dave Gardner

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? — Mo Ibrahim

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. — John Eisenhower

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South — Edward Abbey

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South, — Horton Foote

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. — Charles Wheelan

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. — Peter Abrahams

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. — Florence King

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. — Brooks Hays

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think. — Simon Kuper

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. — Benito Mussolini

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. — Edward Ball

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant. — Juan Williams

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop. — Robert South