I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For… — Eugene Walter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Alexander Koblencs Copy Share Image
Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid.… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
First of all, "redneck" is a state of mind, not a person. So the "racist redneck" thing is a state of mind,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
