Southern Cold Sayings

#1. A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

Robert Dallek

#2. If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Beverly Cleary

#3. I have crabs!
I didn't want to tell you, but since we had sex,
it's only a matter of time before those critters get you too.
Fuck, I've missed you.

Aly Martinez

#4. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#5. The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

Zig Ziglar

#6. I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.

Joseph Monninger

#7. They dissolved when I tried to inspect them, or dimmed, or slid dizzyingly away, like a ship's stern yawing down the dark lee slope of a wave.

Annie Dillard

#8. Spotted with stale blood, but with her hypothesis confirmed. Sydney Clarke could raise the dead.

V.E Schwab

#9. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Viola Spolin

#10. People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

Geert Hofstede

#11. Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

David E. Kelley

#12. It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

Dean Stockwell

#13. If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.

Sheila Kohler

#14. I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Morgan Freeman