Southern Quotes · Page 8

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

— Steven Burd

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

— Jeff Foxworthy

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.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

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

I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone.

— Leslie Jordan

“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the…

— Mark Twain

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're…

— Parker Stevenson

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially…

— Bill Vaughan

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

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not…

— William Faulkner

I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on…

— Frederick Lenz

Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock…

— Robert Pollard

I come from the south, so you're useless, and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of…

— Ruth Wilson

I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I…

— Ronald Reagan

I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference…

— William Wilson Morgan

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed…

— Sol Luckman

You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire…

— Naomi Novik

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back…

— Charles Kingsley

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his…

— Andrea Hirata

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

— Riccardo Tisci

There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what…

— Chris Rock

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

— Cheryl Hines

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

— Stanley Donen

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.

— William Carlos Williams

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

— Edward Ball

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

— Ainsley Earhardt

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

— Shannen Doherty

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

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

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

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

— Harold Bloom

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

— Rene Russo

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

— Willie Parker

I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.

— Tom Landry