Southerner Quotes

64 Southerner quotes by 48 unique authors

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says… — John Shelton Reed
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same,… — John Shelton Reed
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… — John Shelton Reed
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to… — John Shelton Reed
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as… — Tom Wicker
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some… — Lance Bass
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of… — Linda Chavez
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But… — Paula Deen
Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for. — Edna Lewis
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 evil kind of… — Nathan Fillion
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but… — Will Rogers
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists.… — Paula Deen
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was… — Jon Meacham
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have… — Jon Meacham
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

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