Top Southern Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Southern quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Paul Prudhomme
When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.
- Paul Prudhomme
Collection: Southern
Image of Margaret Sanger
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.
- Margaret Sanger
Collection: Southern
Image of Scott Spencer
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
- Scott Spencer
Collection: Southern
Image of Flannery O'Connor
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Southern
Image of 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
Collection: Southern
Image of 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.
- John Shelton Reed
Collection: Southern
Image of Anne Rivers Siddons
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
- Anne Rivers Siddons
Collection: Southern
Image of Michael O'Donoghue
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
- Michael O'Donoghue
Collection: Southern
Image of 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.
- Thaddeus Stevens
Collection: Southern
Image of Albert Parsons
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers
- Albert Parsons
Collection: Southern
Image of Hinton Rowan Helper
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.
- Hinton Rowan Helper
Collection: Southern
Image of Joe Tex
Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.
- Joe Tex
Collection: Southern
Image of Grumpy Cat
I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.
- Grumpy Cat
Collection: Southern
Image of Marcie Cohen Ferris
Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the nineteenth-century South. During that time, Southerners ate far more locally and seasonally, from the ground they knew and grew up on. That idea connects back to today. You are a place. And as a Southerner, the food you place in your body speaks of your personal history, and of the broader Southern history.
- Marcie Cohen Ferris
Collection: Southern
Image of Marcie Cohen Ferris
Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.
- Marcie Cohen Ferris
Collection: Southern
Image of Willie Parker
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
- Willie Parker
Collection: Southern
Image of Nora Roberts
Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: Southern
Image of Brad Paisley
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.
- Brad Paisley
Collection: Southern
Image of William Carlos Williams
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.
- William Carlos Williams
Collection: Southern
Image of Flannery O'Connor
Grace changes us and change is painful".
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Southern
Image of 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.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Southern
Image of Conrad Aiken
I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.
- Conrad Aiken
Collection: Southern
Image of Damon Albarn
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this
- Damon Albarn
Collection: Southern
Image of Woodrow Wilson
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
- Woodrow Wilson
Collection: Southern
Image of 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.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Collection: Southern
Image of Walter Scott
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
- Walter Scott
Collection: Southern
Image of Gore Vidal
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Southern
Image of Rosanne Cash
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
- Rosanne Cash
Collection: Southern
Image of Paul Washer
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Southern
Image of Charles Dickens
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
- Charles Dickens
Collection: Southern
Image of Richard M. Weaver
The South is the region that history has happened to.
- Richard M. Weaver
Collection: Southern
Image of Ann Coulter
Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.
- Ann Coulter
Collection: Southern
Image of Alan Bersin
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.
- Alan Bersin
Collection: Southern
Image of Lauren Groff
I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.
- Lauren Groff
Collection: Southern
Image of Bill Hicks
I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.
- Bill Hicks
Collection: Southern
Image of Charles Kuralt
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
- Charles Kuralt
Collection: Southern
Image of Harper Lee
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
- Harper Lee
Collection: Southern
Image of 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.
- Florence King
Collection: Southern
Image of 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...
- Padma Lakshmi
Collection: Southern
Image of Beth Grant
I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.
- Beth Grant
Collection: Southern
Image of Malcolm X
On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Southern
Image of Frances Mayes
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
- Frances Mayes
Collection: Southern