Southern Quotes · Page 11

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

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

— John Scalzi

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern…

— Doris Lessing

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

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't…

— Tom Bodett

“{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might…

— Nancy B. Brewer

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well,…

— Patrick Symmes

My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this…

— Hillary Scott

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing…

— Anonymous

Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

— Henry David Thoreau

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought…

— Harry Browne

The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group…

— Harry Hay

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up…

— Debi Mazar

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians…

— Jimmy Carter

It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is…

— Jud Wilson

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

— Winston Churchill

I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.

— Larry Wilmore

“… 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

In the olden days you cut your teeth on the northern club circuit. I've cut mine on the southern black-tie circuit.

— Alexander Armstrong

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

— Kami Garcia

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

— Johnny Van Zant

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

— Benjamin Butler

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

— Nancy Grace

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

— Jessie James Decker

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

— Peter Mayle

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

— Ken Kesey

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within…

— Lucas Till

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

— Bo Derek