Southerner Quotes
Southerner Quote of the day
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
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.
Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
