Southern Quotes · Page 5

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

— Horton Foote

Southern California and Las Vegas are my kind of places.

— Colin Cowherd

“I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.”

— Jaycee Ford

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

— Anonymous

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

— John Darnielle

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

— Eustace Mullins

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's…

— Michael C. Hall

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

— Mark Kurlansky

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

— Max Boot

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of…

— Kid Rock

“Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I…

— Markus Zusak

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world…

— Mark Twain

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as…

— Jessica Stroup

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of…

— Anonymous

I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those…

— Deshaun Watson

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in…

— Richard Ford

I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the…

— Joseph Monninger

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best…

— Maya Angelou

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think.…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it…

— Flannery O'Connor

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern…

— Booker T. Washington

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'…

— Pat Conroy

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing…

— Greg Walden

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Well, it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of…

— Matthew Rhys

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

— Tyler Perry

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

— Woodrow Wilson

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

— Charles Bukowski

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

— Robert Morgan

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you…

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

— Abigail Spencer

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

— Donald Trump

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

— Thomas Jefferson

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things…

— Jesmyn Ward

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

— Karen Russell

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

— Brad Paisley

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

— Phil Ochs

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price