Southern Quotes · Page 12

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon…

— Willie Morris

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from…

— Wilbur Smith

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

— Jameis Winston

I'm a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

Illegal aliens knew President Joe Biden would open our southern border wide open.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

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

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

— Michael O'Donoghue

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

— Anita Bryant

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still…

— Flannery O'Connor

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We…

— Bear Bryant

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But…

— Carolyn Wells

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have…

— Josh Holloway

“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads…

— Kellie Elmore

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for…

— James Weldon Johnson

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a…

— Scott Thompson

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at…

— Richard Carmona

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came…

— Bayard Taylor

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to…

— Morris Sullivan

Let me list to you some of the things that we've done in just a short period of time. Again, each of…

— Donald Trump

One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of…

— Frederick Lenz

I just don't seem to be capable of believing in evil as some separate, distinct power within itself. I guess I'm just…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in…

— Jan Brewer

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history…

— Robert Wilson

As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's…

— Cinda Williams Chima

I had never seen an avocado until I came to London in 1994. They just weren't a feature of southern Italian cuisine.

— Gino D'Acampo

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

— Laura Lippman

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

— Bum Phillips

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

— Chita Rivera

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church…

— Missi Pyle

“I was born and raised in the South, honey, but I'm no Southern Belle. I shoot what I aim at.”

— Tonya Burrows

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

— Lee Hazlewood

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

— Faye Dunaway

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

— E. O. Wilson

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

— Arianna Huffington

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

— Timothy Olyphant

As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.

— Paul Watson

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

— Maria Mitchell