Southerner Quotes

64 Southerner quotes by 48 unique authors

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
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy
It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman,… — Margaret Mitchell
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning… — Bruce Feiler
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters. — Karin Slaughter

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