[PDF] The Quotable Southerner eBook

Author : Polly Powers Stramm
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781493045396

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Southerners have always had something to say. Focusing on the unique qualities of both the landscape and people, Quotable Southerner showcases the linguistic insight of the region's native and adopted sons and daughters. Sometimes insightful, sometimes hilarious, these quotes will have readers smiling, laughing, and shaking their heads. The book includes quotes about: -Southerners that have enriched the American soul -The people of the South and their character -History -Landscape and weather -Food, sports, culture -Rights and justice -Observations from visitors -Relationships, family, romance, life, and death.

Author : Polly Powers Stramm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1493045407

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Southerners have always had something to say. Focusing on the unique qualities of both the landscape and people, Quotable Southerner showcases the linguistic insight of the region’s native and adopted sons and daughters. Sometimes insightful, sometimes hilarious, these quotes will have readers smiling, laughing, and shaking their heads.

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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Southern States
ISBN : 9781588180902

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This collection of quotes about the South -- by Southerners and non-Southerners alike -- includes over 700 quips that range from thought-provoking to hilarious, from absurd to moving. Featured are quotes by Martin Luther King Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Hank Williams, Jimmy Carter, Truman Capote, Bear Bryant, Ted Turner, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and many others.

Author : Walter Hines Page
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781570037290

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Presaging William Faulkner's Quentin Compson, the protagonist of Walter Hines Page's The Southerner inches toward progressive ideals while bearing the unshakable weight of the past in the post-Civil War South. The novel is the fictional autobiography of Nicholas Worth, a Harvard-educated Southerner who unsuccessfully champions education reforms in his native state. Worth recounts his struggles to move between the Old South and the New and gives readers a sustained critique of an era in which that kind of movement seemed impossible. First published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1906 and subsequently by Doubleday, Page, and Company in 1909, The Southerner voices hopeful opinions on the social and economic reconciliation of the North and South and of black and white populations while never losing sight of the stumbling blocks toward progress-particularly the shortcomings of the educational system, but also those of party politics, the press, the church, and institutions invested in lionizing the Confederacy.

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1493041665

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Perhaps best known for his classic movie lines, such as "Fill your hands, you sons-of-bitches!" from True Grit, the late actor John Wayne often displayed a spontaneous and biting wit when away from the screen as well. When a reporter from the Harvard Crimson sarcastically asked Wayne if he looked at himself as an "American Legend," for example, the Duke replied: "Well, not being a Harvard man, I don't look at myself any more than necessary."

Author : John Vinson
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2016-01-22
Category :
ISBN : 9780692623206

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The title and message of John Vinson's book is one in the same-Southerner, Take Your Stand! This is not an empty call to action or pining for the good ol' days, but a practical guide to reclaiming your identity and your life. Although this book is specific to Southerners, the discerning reader will view Vinson's work as applicable to any individual, family, or community that wants to separate themselves-as far as possible-from the "Establishment" and get back to the basics of faith, family, community, sustainable living, and self-sufficiency. This road to independence is fraught with danger and hardships, but the alternative route is a road to both moral and material ruin:"The time is ripe to set a new course of living and making a living. Southerners and other Americans must understand that to depend on the Establishment is to participate in our own destruction. If we are to be saved, we must save ourselves by striking out on our own, a person at a time, a family at a time, and a community at a time, to build a future worth living as free men and women.... Be warned that the route to Southern renewal will offer hardship, toil, and difficulty. It will require blazing new trails while following ancient directions. It is not a mission for weaklings."The author's hope is that this book will "rouse the Southern remnant and provide new ideas for action."This book is enrolled in Kindle Match!

Author : Deborah Ford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780452285064

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The New York Times bestselling Southern girls’ guide to succeeding in life—with a foreword by Fannie Flag. They're called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, and Southern Belles, but at heart they're just plain Grits—Girls Raised in the South! Now, Deborah Ford, founder of Grits® Inc., reveals the code behind the distinctive—and irresistible—style of the Southern woman. Equal parts sweet sincerity and sharp, sly humor, The Grits Guide to Life is chock-full of Southern charm: advice, true-life stories from honest-to-god "Grits," recipes, humor, quotable wisdom, and more. Readers will learn vital lessons, including: how to eat a watermelon in a sundress; how to drink like a Southern lady (sip... a lot); and the real meaning of PMS (Precious Mood Southerner). This charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl—whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive—and her many admirers. “Funny, wise, charming, and smart...Grits deserves a place on your shelf between Gone With the Wind and the Memphis Junior League cookbook, and I predict in the years to come it will be passed down to daughter along with the family silver and great-grandmother's lace doilies.”—Fannie Flag, from her foreword to The Grits Guide to Life