Southerner Quotes · Page 2

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

— Walker Percy

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic…

— Dean Koontz

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

— Florence King

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

— Joe Thompson

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged…

— Linda Chavez

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that…

— Carson McCullers

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners…

— Septima Poinsette Clark

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks…

— Bill Bryson

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

— Paula Deen

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about,…

— Lance Bass

“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous…

— Pat Conroy

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a…

— John Shelton Reed

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because…

— Beth Ditto

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner…

— Leon Trotsky

“The first thing outsiders notice about Southerners is the way we talk. In fact, if it wasn’t for our speech, some people…

— Deborah Ford

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding…

— Kathy Reichs

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall…

— Jimmy Carter

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while…

— Nancy Werlin

Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture…

— Allison Glock

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…

— Tom Wicker

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

— Terry Pratchett

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

— Karin Slaughter

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

— Mark Twain

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson

Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.

— John Shelton Reed

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

— Parker Posey

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

— Florence King

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one…

— Gertrude Atherton

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a…

— Neko Case

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the…

— Clyde Edgerton

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

— Jefferson Davis

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

— Constance Baker Motley

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared…

— Reynolds Price

“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.”

— Chad B Hanson