#south

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#cats #found #grew #i #lot

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. ↗

— Billy Carter

#blue #boy #got #i #neck

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#clean #communities #country #dakota #drinking

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#father #knowing #little #man #many

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#already #colony #far #new #new south wales

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.' ↗

— Susannah York

#garden #had #house #i #incredible

It's, umm... art? ↗

— Spencer

#art

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit

Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#nostalgia #small-town #south-carolina #spring #beauty

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

— William Faulkner

#south #writing #business