Southerner Quotes · Page 2

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Reynolds Price

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.”

— Chad B Hanson

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

— Florence King

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an…

— Nathan Fillion

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle…

— Jon Meacham

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a…

— Mildred D. Taylor

I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past…

— William R. Ferris

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the…

— Clyde Edgerton

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one…

— Gertrude Atherton

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a…

— John Shelton Reed

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a…

— Neko Case

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.…

— Margaret Mitchell

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in…

— Jim Brown

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama…

— John Steinbeck

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while…

— Nancy Werlin

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…

— Tom Wicker

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall…

— Jimmy Carter

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding…

— Kathy Reichs

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

— Parker Posey

Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.

— John Shelton Reed

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

— Karin Slaughter

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

— Mark Twain

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

— Karin Slaughter

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

— Terry Pratchett

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,'…

— Bernard Goldberg

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks…

— Bill Bryson

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners…

— Septima Poinsette Clark

“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous…

— Pat Conroy

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

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about,…

— Lance Bass