Born Quote by Clyde Edgerton

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that.…

— William Gibson

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but…

— Neko Case

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you're born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at…

— Lana

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

— Fred Schneider

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some,…

— Allison Glock

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than…

— John Shelton Reed

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen