Southern Foodways Quotes & Sayings

The Golden Age was never the present age. — Benjamin Franklin

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life ... — Edward Gibbon

I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president. — George W. Bush

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best. — Waylon Jennings

Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp. — William Everson

The moon shone like herrings in the water. — Dorothy Wordsworth

Evil be he who thinketh evil. — Rebecca Maizel

From the hell of the slave quarters would come some of the Deep South's great gifts to the continent: blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll, as well as the Caribbean-inspired foodways today enshrined in Southern-style barbeque joints from Miami to Anchorage. — Colin Woodard