Erk Russell
Football Coach
"The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women."
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Grit
40 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brian May
Musician, Astrophysicist
"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."
William George Jordan
Author, Speaker
"If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence."
Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful."
Dolly Parton
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road."
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"Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos."
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