Southern Quotes
Just saw a woman with a t-shirt that said southern and sassy, it's all good. Well madame, I beg to differ, it is in fact, not 'all good'.
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.
I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave
I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.
I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.
A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.
I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.
The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.
Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.
As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.
I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long story short I'm just trying to be successful at what I do and work hard.
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.
Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.
