Southern Quotes

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

I'm a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

The merchant has no country .

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.