Southern Quotes · Page 13

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

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear…

— Walt Whitman

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

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

“You have to remember that, on some level, the entire Southern Reach has become a long com, and if you forget that…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious.…

— Dennis Miller

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my…

— Jessica Simpson

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might…

— Walker Percy

New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern…

— Jeremy Lin

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

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even…

— William Gibson

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the…

— Kourtney Kardashian

I took my little brother, and we went from Beijing to Ulan Bator, and then took a helicopter to the southern Gobi.…

— Milla Jovovich

“She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke rose from chimneys in…

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

“If you love Southern men, raise your glass. If you don't raise your standards.”

— Nick Wilgus

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

— Dan Jenkins

I am open to working in all southern language - Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

— Pratik Gandhi

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

— Kinky Friedman

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

— Alan Bersin

Lot of people have indeed compared my looks to that of a few Southern actors.

— Pratik Gandhi

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

— John Edgar Wideman

“That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.”

— Jack Butler

“Sweetling, I'm not going anywhere except upstairs, where I'm going to make love to you till you pass out happy.”

— Avery Flynn

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

— Gore Vidal

My office prides itself on providing outstanding constituent services for the residents of Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn.

— Nicole Malliotakis

“But she was smart. She was savvy. And most of all, she was Southern.”

— Sarah Addison Allen