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 Copy Share Image
“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side,… — Kathryn Stockett 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 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
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
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
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
I know climate change is a hoax – of course – but places that have never seen this type of winter weather… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,'… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
