Quote by J.D. Vance Download Open image ““Maybe, with my Southern drawl and”” — J.D. Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.” — Jeffrey Stepakoff Copy Share Image
“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise… — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
“North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm… — Andrea Laurence Copy Share Image
“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.” — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
“A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea. Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer music. Wildflowers… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
“We Southerners are a strong lot. Like our ancestors before us, we will survive. I will never lose faith. I am standing on the… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“The South was a special place, a chosen people, the best of all possible worlds.” — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
“Wed don't need to live like the elites of California, New York, or Washington, D.C. We don't need to work a hundred hours a… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“the first impulse is escape, but people who lurch toward the exit rarely choose the right door.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay,… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
