Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

The southerner talks music.

Nora Roberts

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

In South Park, everyone is in tune with where they live. We're here because we want to be.

In southeast Kansas, a lot of them are part-time,

Laura Carmichael

I'm from Southampton.

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Michael Stipe

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Gore Vidal

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

Jeremy Clarkson

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Harper Lee

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

John Oliver

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Lewis Grizzard

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Luke Grimes

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

Peter Mayle

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

Tim McGraw

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Sean Hannity

In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.

Kami Garcia

...south of Somewhere and north of Nowhere...

Rosanne Cash

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

Ric Keller

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

Tim Scott

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Ray Parlour

Southampton have always been at the top, apart from the seasons when they weren't

Walter Scott

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Yogi Berra

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Sarah Addison Allen

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

William Faulkner

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.