Southerners Quotes
41 Southerners quotes by 32 unique authors
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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
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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
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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
— Terry Pratchett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
— Eudora Welty
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
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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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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
— Blake Lively
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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written…
— Robert Morgan
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Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.
— John Shelton Reed
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You know, Southerners are pretty cool.
— Fred Schneider
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... two great areas of deafnessexisted in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had…
— Sarah Patton Boyle
Who Wrote These Southerners Quotes
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