Southern Quotes
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}
The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.
He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.
I didn’t even know a piece of me was missing until I had her for the first time.
Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.
She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.
Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sing the song of love.
As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music.
A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.
It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.
We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.
The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon
Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers
...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...
The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.
I reckon it’s true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.
Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.
We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.
If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.
The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.
My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth.
It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.
I know what it feels like to miss everything about him--the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.
When a Southern woman offers you a homecooked meal, you're only rude if you refuse. That goes for seconds and thirds too, by the way." -Ruby Watts
Vidalia, open those eyes and look at me. As with all things, we do this together, Darlin'.
Whenever a group of people who are designed to primarily unite around one thing try to unite around something else, the result is devastating for all.
With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of my mother blows in, riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord, riding on a honeysuckle breeze.
The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.
