Southern England Sayings

#1. Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag

#2. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.

David Levithan

#3. You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free.

Howard Tayler

#4. Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?

Drew Barrymore

#5. Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

Henry Rollins

#6. Simply having children does not make mothers.

John G. Shedd

#7. Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Walt Disney Company

#8. Growing healthy relationships is learning how to communicate, how to do conflict well, how to apologize and forgive, and how to own up to your mistakes. It's establishing healthy boundaries and knowing when to say no.

Lisa Anderson

#9. When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

Mark Twain

#10. Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

Isabella Bird

#11. Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

Destiny Allison

#12. My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#13. For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way; it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it.

Mark Twain

#14. I'll be damned. Miranda Sweet, is it you or is my glaucoma acting up again?" Ruby Sue sat her glass down on the Formica countertop with a clank. "You always did know how to make an entrance. Who do you think you are, the Queen of England?

Avery Flynn

#15. Oh, I'm sure he's much more intelligent and thoughtful in person. This is just his "lazy phone persona.

Aziz Ansari

#16. Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

Scott McCloud

#17. In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus.

Max Lucado