Southern Quotes · Page 26

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

— Allison Glock

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

— Josh Lucas

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would…

— Kevyn Aucoin

“I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all…

— James Caskey

My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

— Neal Stephenson

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

— John McDonnell

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He…

— Tom Wolfe

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious…

— William Gibson

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

— Faye Dunaway

Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and…

— Eustace Mullins

I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it,…

— Glenn Beck

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 just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect…

— Luke Bryan

It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your…

— Bell Hooks

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

— Billy Carter

“Obelisks don't grow from the soil, and stone men and iron horses are never built without purpose.”

— Anonymous

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has…

— Dave Haywood

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama…

— DJ Qualls

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados;…

— Matt Cartwright

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of…

— Bo Derek

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— John Edgar Wideman

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene…

— Charles Lyell