Southerner Quotes

64 quotes by 48 authors

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word. — Mark Twain
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. — Ethel Waters
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land… — E. O. Wilson
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.... — Dean Koontz
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the… — Harper Lee
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison,… — Pat Conroy
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… — Florence King
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires… — Walker Percy
Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a… — Nancy Werlin
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept… — Kathy Reichs
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show… — Reynolds Price
Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on… — Maria V. Snyder
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a… — Maureen Johnson
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen… — Dorothy Allison

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