“Nobody used the minute hand. And Southerners were suspicious of Yankees who did.” — D. D. Scott Copy Share Image
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.” — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
“She hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him--it's sort of exotic.” — Tom Rachman 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… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“The first thing outsiders notice about Southerners is the way we talk. In fact, if it wasn’t for our speech, some people… — Deborah Ford 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
“If the least thing goes wrong with a saddle, or clothes, or a boot, you cannot find a soul to make repairs,… — Louis-Philippe Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm… — Grady McWhiney 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 think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have… — Sunny Mabrey Copy Share Image
“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools.… — Brianna Wu 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
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore 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
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
“She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Southerners. Such literate, civilized folk, such charm and cleverness and passion for living, such genuine interest in people, all people, high and… — Wilton Barnhardt Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“So the women would not forgive. Their passion remained intact, carefully guarded and nurtured by the bitter knowledge of all they had… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south?… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
