Southern Quotes · Page 4

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to…

— Luther Allison

Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at…

— John Egerton

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

— Jason Dolley

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

— Mark Twain

I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the…

— C. J. Wilson

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'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

— Bert Blyleven

“Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...”

— Kellie Elmore

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I…

— Clarence Clemons

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17…

— Lynn Collins

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best…

— Bobby McFerrin

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

— Monica Crowley

Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.

— Daniel Tosh

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

— Vince Gill

In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local…

— Barbara Crossette

If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under…

— Joseph Goebbels

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

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being…

— Chris Hughes

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in…

— David Macbeth Moir

That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off…

— Eric McCormack

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

— Bum Phillips

I am one who is very meridione - Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which…

— Riccardo Tisci

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give…

— Della Reese

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

— Powers Boothe

In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign…

— Sadao Araki