Southern Confederacy Quotes

#1. Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

James I. Robertson Jr.

#2. Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Corrine Brown

#3. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#4. HAPPINESS IS A BASIC RIGHT OF HUMANITY...BE HAPPY REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES!

Lola Faye Arnold

#5. I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Joe Mantello

#6. I love you," she said softly.
Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. "I know."
Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she heard a low, sneaky whisper.
"Mrs. Taylor Andrews ... "
She didn't bother to open her eyes.
"Still not gonna happen.

Julie James

#7. By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

Karen Abbott

#8. We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Sri Chinmoy

#9. If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.

Joseph Roth

#10. To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

Andrew Johnson

#13. Part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you

W.S. Merwin

#14. Never liked Kolanos. Was at a feast with him one time. Never heard him fart at all. Can't trust a man who doesn't fart at a feast.

David Gemmell