Top 1200 Southern Baptist Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

We have jokingly said if you've got good hair, can sing and know three chords, you can lead worship at First Baptist Houston or wherever. But that's kind of scary, putting somebody on stage just because they have a good voice. Do they know theologically and spiritually what they're saying and why they're doing it?

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.

My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked for the U.S. military. She had voted for Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in prayer. I kept my eyes closed, good Baptist that I was at the time, so I never knew if it was an angel. (I now am reasonably confident it was.)

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.

I think my mother and grandmother had style even though we're humble Southern people.

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

I will make every effort to protect and secure the southern border, and advance an America first agenda.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.

Ricky Washington is from a Baptist church in Miami, Florida, and he can pretty much sing anything. We just started working it up at soundcheck, and holy smokes, it's just great! The audience gets to singing. So there's that stuff to do - find some old obscure R&B stuff - because we can do it justice.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

I'm just a southern boy who likes to go mudding in my Jeep, quail hunting, and skeet shooting.

I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.

If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? Should the government - and this is really the case here - should the government force you to do that?

I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.

All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.