Southern Quotes · Page 11

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

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

Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.

— Donald Trump

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

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

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

Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,…

— Max Muller

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

We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is…

— Donald Trump

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

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

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

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

— Bo Derek

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Winston Churchill