Top 1200 Southern Baptist Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

You may have Leftist ideologies, southern Punjab always had a leftist ideology.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

I eat lots of mustard greens and collard greens. My mother cooks all the traditional southern food.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...

I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

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.

I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I've done songs with down South artists.

I've been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains, and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many accolades, but then I watched it and was won over.

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

My favorite southern dish has to be fried chicken. I love to cook it. I love to have it in the summer.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Afghanistan's geographical location gives it the opportunity to become one of the biggest transit routes in the region. It can connect Southern, Eastern and Central Asia to the Middle East.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country.

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress.

I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.

From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.