Southern Tradition Quotes

#1. So you're lying to me again?" "It's a Southern tradition." "Are there any crocs in the water?" "I done told you there ain't no crocodiles around here." "What's the difference?" "Mostly the spelling, ...

Nick Wilgus

#2. Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

Edmund White

#3. There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.

Kimberly Schlapman

#4. Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Dale Carnegie

#5. Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.

Rob Wittman

#6. God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Catherine Marshall

#7. The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Jack White

#9. The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Guys named Chad probably only swam when playing water polo.

Jill Shalvis

#11. To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that

Philip K. Dick

#12. There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#13. It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Ayn Rand

#14. Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

Sean Connery

#15. Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.

Nabil N. Jamal

#16. I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Gillian Welch

#17. Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

Nick Harkaway

#18. Skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn