Southern Plantation Quotes

#1. Stormpaw won't," Goosekit growled. "He's going to try to kill me.

Erin Hunter

#2. I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

Giancarlo Esposito

#3. If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#4. If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.

Adrienne Gusoff

#5. If we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Douglas J. Moo

#6. Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

Jim Stynes

#7. Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

Martha Stewart

#8. Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

Billy Childish

#10. [W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness

Steve Hagen

#11. In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.

Tim Heaton

#12. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Robert Wilson

#13. Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

Lance Morrow

#14. My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Dolly Parton

#15. Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.
- Mitch Lucker

Mitch Lucker

#16. I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

Nina Arianda

#17. There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely. Eventually,

Edward Hirsch

#18. Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

Luther Allison

#19. I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

Ross Macdonald