Regional Identity Quotes

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

India is a geographical term. It is no more of a united nation than the equator.

… so called Confederacy

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

There shall not be two religions in Arabia.

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

I am no longer a Virginian. I am an American.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

Let there be no two religions in Arabia.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.