Top Southern Quotes Collection
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When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.Collection: Southern
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.Collection: Southern
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.Collection: Southern
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.Collection: Southern
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?Collection: Southern
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.Collection: Southern
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.Collection: Southern
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it fromCollection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
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 workersCollection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.Collection: Southern
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.Collection: Southern
Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.Collection: Southern
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.Collection: Southern
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.Collection: Southern
Grace changes us and change is painful".Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.Collection: Southern
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 thisCollection: Southern
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.Collection: Southern
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.Collection: Southern
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.Collection: Southern
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.Collection: Southern
Southern gentility is evocative to me.Collection: Southern
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
The South is the region that history has happened to.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.Collection: Southern
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
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...Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
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.Collection: Southern
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.Collection: Southern