Southern Quotes · Page 10

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

— Billy Carter

I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

— Rush Limbaugh

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

— Neil Young

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

— Sheri Holman

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

— Henry David Thoreau

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

— Carroll Quigley

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need…

— John Lee Mahin

“Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...”

— Kellie Elmore

In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little…

— Miriam Makeba

We were out there with the people whose homes were flooded out in Southern Louisiana. We are out there on the front…

— Jill Stein

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one…

— Anonymous

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group rivaled only by the Democrat Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center... Folks, if…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I'm excited. People from around the country have read the book and love it. Whew! I didn't want it stuck in the…

— Faith Kaiser

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally.…

— Harper Lee

That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in…

— Michael Shannon

“Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass…

— Kellie Elmore

Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back…

— Nathan Wolfe

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but…

— John Shelton Reed

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.'…

— Stuart Scott

The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border…

— Megyn Kelly

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian…

— Penn Jillette

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

— Jefferson Davis

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go…

— Tony Kushner

The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should…

— Tariq Ramadan

I eat lots of mustard greens and collard greens. My mother cooks all the traditional southern food.

— Paula Kelly

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

— Richard M. Weaver

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

— Willa Cather

You may have Leftist ideologies, southern Punjab always had a leftist ideology.

— Amarinder Singh

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

— Flannery O'Connor

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

— Joe Torre

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

— Alison Lurie

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

— Rodney Dangerfield

There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing.

— Abigail Spencer

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

— Harold Bloom

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

— Rene Russo

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

— Willie Parker

I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.

— Tom Landry

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

— Bert Blyleven