The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I know climate change is a hoax – of course – but places that have never seen this type of winter weather… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Suppose a man is walking across a field. To the question "Who is that?" a Southerner would reply by saying something like… — Mary Hood Copy Share Image
Viola Davis keeps saying this movie should be called The Big Responsibility instead of The Help, because there were so many groups… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
