Southern Quotes

We're from the South.

— Matt Duffer

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I'm Southern to the bone.

— Leslie Jordan

I ain't crazy, just Southern!

— Beka Mackey

I'm a Georgia Southern boy.

— Cole Swindell

You know, I love the South.

— Jon Bernthal

“We of the South,”

— Robert A. Caro

I'm too Southern.

— Ralphie May

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

— Vince Gill

Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.

— Brandon Ingram

In the Concrete Jungle, there's definitely no Southern hospitality.

— Erica Mena

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

— Nancy Reagan

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

— Nora Roberts

“Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.”

— Terris McMahan Grimes

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

— Ian Harding

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

— Belle Boyd

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

— Johan Lindeberg

“I know what it feels like to miss everything about him--the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he…

— Travis Neighbor Ward

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

— Allison Glock

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

— Mario Draghi

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

— Sarah Lacy

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic…

— Dean Koontz

We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you…

— Rickey Medlocke

My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here…

— Ella Baker

Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture…

— Allison Glock

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real…

— Amy Hill Hearth

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not…

— Carrie Preston

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion…

— Margaret Walker

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like,…

— Peter Steele

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the…

— Bill Mumy

It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in…

— Pat Conroy

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On…

— Winston Churchill

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious…

— William Gibson

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

— Karl Marx

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: the strings sang a hollow, lulling tune,…

— Truman Capote

The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty…

— Steve Inskeep

Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern,…

— Trevor Howard