Quote by Deborah Ford

“Well, I Declare!: Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7, the South’s most famous whiskey, is distilled in a dry county. Isn’t that just so Southern--a…

— Deborah Ford

“ grits \’grits\n: 1: acronym for Girls Raised in The South 2: an increasingly popular expression associated with the enviable attributes of Southern women,…

— Deborah Ford

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition…

— Anonymous

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the…

— W. S. Merwin

“You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it. You cannot talk about faith. You have to live it. You cannot talk about…

— Dragos Bratasanu

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire…

— Sol Luckman

“Grits Glossary success \sǝk-‘ses\ n: something a Grits has to define for herself, simply put ”

— Deborah Ford

“Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Grits Glossary newcomer \’nü-,kǝ-mǝr\ n: any neighbor who has lived there less than ten years, unless her mother is from the area, of course…

— Deborah Ford

“Let us drink deep brothers,' he cried, leaving off his strange anointment for a while, to lift a great glass, filled with sparkling liquor,…

— Fitz James O'Brien

“So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n all o'…

— David Mitchell

“The southern half of Riverskin was indistinguishable from Flyside, which it adjoined. It was cheap and not too violent, crowded, mostly good-natured. It was…

— China Miéville