Best Southerners Quotes

41 Southerners quotes by 32 unique authors

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
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
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
I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners. — Blake Lively
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
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. — John Shelton Reed
You know, Southerners are pretty cool. — Fred Schneider
... 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

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