Southern Quotes

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

The South is the region that history has happened to.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

On the campaign trail, [Donald] Trump has threatened a trade war and repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a wall on the Southern border.

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.