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Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.
- Lauraine Snelling
A rose shook in her blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick breath parted the petals of her lips. They trembled. Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress. I love him, she said simply.
- Oscar Wilde
Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
- Francine Rivers
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
- Dolly Parton
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
- Maya Angelou
Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.
- Stephen Jackson
Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
- John Oliver
What can I say? I'm a Southern girl.
- Huda Kattan
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
- Michael Smith
can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.
- Lauren Daigle