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If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South. -- Malcolm X
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North. -- Tom Landry
There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close. -- Dick Gregory
I'm a Southern girl. -- Brooke Burns
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. -- Billy Campbell
I like the South because of the people. They are loyal. Once they love a team, they're fans forever. -- Dominique Wilkins
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican. -- Shannen Doherty
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway. -- Watkin Tudor Jones
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap.
From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat. -- Big Pun
I prefer to live in the South but on my own terms. It takes some doing to insert oneself in such a way as not to succumb to the ghosts of the Old South or the happy hustlers of the new Sunbelt South. -- Walker Percy
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. -- John Shelton Reed
I'm a Southerner. -- Jimmy Carter
Upward, not Northward -- Edwin A. Abbott
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. -- Medgar Evers
I love everything about the South; I even love hate. -- Brother Dave Gardner
Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community ... I love the South. -- Laurie Holden
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. -- Tate Taylor
I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person. -- Johnnie Cochran
If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north. -- Jessica Day George
Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the essence of north-and it's autumn
I've chosen as this year's friend. -- Anna Akhmatova
The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes! -- Hannah Flagg Gould
East of the sun and west of the moon. -- Edith Pattou
My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame. -- King Louie
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. -- William Shakespeare
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future. -- Richard M. Weaver
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. -- Woodrow Wilson
I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years. -- King Louie
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. -- Henry Clay
Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle ... always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side. -- Phillip Connors
The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism. -- Sonny Perdue
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. -- E. O. Wilson
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins. -- Arthur Chapman
I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else. -- Steven Soderbergh
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town. -- William Gibson
How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing? -- Don Delillo
I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl. -- Cassie Scerbo
Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night. -- David Livingstone
Point north and vok voort. -- Andrew Miller
I'm such a Southern girl. -- Solange Knowles
We face neither East nor West; We face forward -- Kwame Nkrumah
And how did you find the East?'
'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole. -- Ian Mcdonald
Up the well known creek -- Margery Allingham
The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions. -- John Grisham
most southerly rising point occurs at -- Brian Cox
If my heart were a compass, you'd be North. -- Kenneth Oppel
The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields. -- Alexandra Adornetto
So, I'm from the South. So I guess that makes me South Korean. -- Henry Cho
Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south? -- Umar
I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia. -- Jerry Falwell
The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right. -- Paul Downs Colaizzo
Goldsboro, North Carolina. -- John Feinstein
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Go West, young man. -- Aaron Burr
You know, Southerners are pretty cool. -- Fred Schneider
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ... -- Dean Koontz
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun. -- Nancy Cartwright
The West to me is where the landscape is, -- Lee Friedlander
I'm from the Midwest. -- Craig Kilborn
When the crowd is going south, your inner mind might tell you that your goal lies to the north. Then go the unpopular way; go north. -- Oluwole Komolafe
New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland. -- Matana Roberts
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. -- Nora Ephron
My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site ... I take that baggage with me. -- Antoine Predock
With West, I picked deep and then deeper. I picked all the way, hot and cold, good and bad, dark and light. -- Robin York
Perhaps to the north? I hear Scotland is lovely this time of year." "Are you barmy? Scotland is wholly abysmal this time of year. -- Gail Carriger
I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang. -- Katori Hall
I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise. -- Kelly Rowland
Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men! -- Unknown
South Carolina is a great place to be from. -- Tim Scott
London, dirty little pool of life -- Behramji Malabari
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. -- Ben Shahn
West, North, and South the children of Men spread and wandered, and their joy was the joy of the morning before the dew is dry, when every leaf is green. -- J.r.r. Tolkien
away from the ocean, heading toward the -- Gail Carriger
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South. -- Jesmyn Ward
The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. -- D.h. Lawrence
Another Country, -- Katharine Swartz
South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital. -- Eliza Lucas
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it -- Richard Wright
I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded. -- Amber Benson
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. -- Alan Ball
The countryside they -- Karl Schroeder
If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South. -- Tommy Lee Jones
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. -- Kit Williams
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
Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That's where the West begins -- Arthur Chapman
We're headed for the South Pole!" Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys' room next door. "And it's, like, so far south that it's the bottom of the whole world. -- James Patterson
Home, you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue. -- Carl Sagan
on the outskirts of Johnson -- Scott Pratt
Upward and Onward -- Stephen Zimmer
What part of Canada are you from, honey?"
"THE LEFT PART," said Jay. -- Adam Rex
I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long story short I'm just trying to be successful at what I do and work hard. -- Kiley Dean
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
high country. But since it was getting late -- Shay Mara
What lies north of the North Pole? -- Stephen Hawking
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. -- Ida B. Wells
the south where these stories take place - is lower Alabama, lush and green and full of death, the wooded counties between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. -- Tom Franklin
It ain't where you're from, its where you're going to -- Bob Dylan
I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa. -- Geneva Carr
I'm a southern gentleman. -- Jamie Foxx
It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style. -- Bernard Arnault
