Southern Quotes · Page 7

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

— Shannen Doherty

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

— Ainsley Earhardt

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

— Hannah Brown

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

— John Oliver

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

— Greg Iles

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

— Calvin Johnson

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

— Riccardo Sabatini

“If we weren’t running late already, I’d pull this truck onto a dirt road and show her just what she does to…

— Jiffy Kate

Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally…

— Evan Osnos

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will…

— Lori Lansens

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two…

— Ann Patchett

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people,…

— Samuel Alito

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give…

— Mark Twain

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's…

— Angela Davis

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a…

— William J. Clinton

Just saw a woman with a t-shirt that said southern and sassy, it's all good. Well madame, I beg to differ, it…

— Dov Davidoff

In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day…

— Judy Bonds

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to…

— David Swanson

The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern…

— Tim Cahill

“She wrote the names of the day's cakes on the board: traditional Southern red velvet cake and peach pound cake, but also…

— Sarah Addison Allen

At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid…

— Diana Gabaldon

Southern Kordofan is not a disputed territory. It is, and will remain, in the north, where the Nuba Mountains are. People believe…

— Rebecca Hamilton

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

— Ronnie Van Zant

“I’ll have you know Southern isn’t a synonym for stupid.--soon-to-be-released novel, Cape Cursed.”

— Janice Lane Palko

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

— Steven Soderbergh

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

— Jerry Costello

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

— Dimebag Darrell

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

— Mario Batali

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

— Diana DeGarmo

I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a…

— Billie Lourd

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

— Jim Rash

“ When a Southern woman has nothing else, she still has her manners. ”

— Deborah Ford

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

— Parker Posey

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

— Henry Cho

The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like…

— Jessica Simpson

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

— Johnny Van Zant

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a…

— Donald Ray Pollock