Southern Quotes · Page 6

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

— Jaycee Ford

“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

'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

“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 have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to…

— Werner Herzog

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent.…

— Donald Trump

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

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time…

— A. J. Liebling

Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What…

— Clark Gable

A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning…

— Leah Cypess

“Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think that they have…

— James Caskey

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in…

— John Lindsay

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

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word…

— Ambrose Bierce

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

— Neil Young

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

— Stanley Ralph Ross

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

— Charles Kuralt

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

— Scott Spencer

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

— Paul Prudhomme

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

— Sarah Lacy