Best Southern Sayings

582 Southern quotes by 461 unique authors

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at… — Cleo Moore
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and… — Alan Lomax
The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area,… — David Nabarro
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight. — Chris Hughes
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. — Alison Lurie
As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants. — Justin Townes Earle
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
I was always the Southern gentleman. — Lance Bass
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… — Charles Bukowski
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so… — Jefferson Davis
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians… — Robert E. Lee
A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we… — David Ben-Gurion
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned… — Carmen Agra Deedy
I hate these people (the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere) for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to… — Fred Dryer
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the… — Ulysses S. Grant
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history -… — Richard M. Nixon
We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts… — Ronald Reagan
More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men. — Harold Bloom
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized… — Christopher Hitchens
As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season. — Unknown Author
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put… — James Weldon Johnson
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels… — Jack White
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value… — Helen Hunt Jackson
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign… — Damon Albarn

Who Wrote These Southern Quotes

461 authors contributed a total of 582 Southern Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Southern Sayings

More Ways to Read Southern Quotes

Who Wrote These Southern Quotes