#southern

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. ↗

— Harper Lee

#dream #golf #home #interrupting #know

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#easier #games #hemisphere #means #more

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. ↗

— Al Michaels

#better #california #december #end #entire

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#proceed #southerner #those #tolerant #usually

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#cancer #could #cut #just #keeps

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#been #billy #carried #carter #crossing

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned. ↗

— Jaime Pressly

#hollywood #i #old-fashioned #southern #want

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#bit #hand #i #other #southern