Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Frances Mayes

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

Jefferson Davis

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Scott Spencer

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

Thaddeus Stevens

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Margaret Sanger

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

Mary Steenburgen

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

Paula Deen

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

Lance Bass

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

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.

Nora Roberts

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

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.

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.

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.

Vince Gill

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

Walter Scott

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

Yogi Berra

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.