Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gore Vidal

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

Florence King

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

Flannery O'Connor

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Flannery O'Connor

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Everything in the Southeast right now is kind of coordinated with this.

Jessica Simpson

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.

Katy Mixon

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

John Oliver

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Lewis Grizzard

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

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.

Luke Grimes

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

Kami Garcia

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

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Jesse Jackson

We will be there for as long as we have been in South Korea.

Pat Conroy

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

Paul Prudhomme

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

Padma Lakshmi

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...

Mike Colter

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.

Joe Slovo

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

John Green

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Michael O'Donoghue

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

Mark Twain

The southerner talks music.

Frances Mayes

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

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.