Top 42 Strom Quotes
#1. Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.
Jay Leno
#2. Strom held her gaze, his ferocity once again turning to amusement. "I understand why your mate chose you.
Marissa Meyer
#3. Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
Carol Moseley Braun
#5. If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.
Tim Scott
#6. I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.
Trent Lott
#7. I can be quite charming when I want to be. - Strom
Derek Landy
#8. Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and
Junot Diaz
#9. Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.
Jon Stewart
#10. The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.
Carl Hiaasen
#11. I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.
Strom Thurmond
#12. If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
Strom Thurmond
#13. Lies so convincingly you'd swear they were telling the
Abigail Strom
#14. you simply need to unchain yourself from the past. Then you may find that you have all the power that you need once the past has been released. To let go of the past may be the most meaningful action you will ever take.
Max Strom
#15. There are only two things in life you can't change - yesterday and tomorrow. But there's nothing you can't do today.
Abigail Strom
#16. If I have no appetite - it is because I am already full. If I have no desire to go anywhere - it is because I have already arrived.
Max Strom
#17. This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
Strom Thurmond
#18. I was obviously out of my mind. It was your job to talk me down off the ledge, not hand me a cape and tell me I could fly.
Abigail Strom
#19. I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.
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#20. Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
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#21. All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,
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#22. Love is the only thing we take with us, and the only thing we leave behind. You can't force it. You can't deserve it. You can only give it . . . and accept it.
Abigail Strom
#23. Don't look backwards. That never does any good. Think about the future instead.
Abigail Strom
#24. She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.
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#25. We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.
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#26. There is no software for becoming self-aware.
Max Strom
#27. They didn't understand that no one was entitled to a living. That everything was a struggle. That you had to fight and claw your way to success. Kate
Abigail Strom
#28. The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Strom Thurmond
#29. Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.
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#30. I just think that particular brand of sexy isn't a woman's best weapon, and it's definitely not her only one. If you reduce yourself to that, then that's what people will see. They won't notice anything else about you.
Abigail Strom
#31. I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,
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#32. The only thing in the world he could say right now
Abigail Strom
#33. And as long as there's one thing in this world you do because it brings you joy, then you're not a lost cause.
Abigail Strom
#34. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.
Abigail Strom
#35. You put God first in your life and didn't try to gain everything for yourself, and now God has given you your heart's desire.
M.H. Strom
#36. I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.
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#37. I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.
Strom Thurmond
#38. Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.
M.H. Strom
#39. It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Strom Thurmond
#40. Falling into her was like falling into a star, the heat so intense he was consumed in the blink of an eye.
Abigail Strom
#42. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.
Abigail Strom
