In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie 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
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King 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
“Suppose a man is walking across a field. To the question "Who is that?" a Southerner would reply by saying something like… — Mary Hood Copy Share Image
Viola Davis keeps saying this movie should be called The Big Responsibility instead of The Help, because there were so many groups… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa. — Geneva Carr Copy Share Image
