Southern Quotes

The merchant has no country .

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

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.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

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

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I'm outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?

If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.