Southerner Quotes

• 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.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Nice, Thinking

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• Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

  Paula Deen

  Long, Cooking, Grit

  Paula Deen (2011). “Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

  Charles Kuralt

  Southern, Said

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• Southerners smile more than other Americans.

  John Shelton Reed

  Smile, Smile More

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• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

  Linda Chavez

  White, People, Black

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• 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.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Would Be, West, Born

  "The South: Not all Bubbas and banjos" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2012.

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• The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Use, Educated

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The southerner talks music.

  Mark Twain

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• Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

  Eudora Welty

  Memories, Diaries, Letters

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• 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.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Two, People, Different

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• Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

  John Shelton Reed

  Country, Smart, Thinking

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• The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Weakness, Innocence

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Country, Men, White Man

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• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sunset, Southern, Causes

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.34.

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• King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, White, Georgia

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• You could start an argument in an empty house.

  Jill Shalvis

  House, Argument, Funny Redneck

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Sadness, Defense

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• Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

  Florence King

  Pride, Genius, Psychological

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• A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

  Joe Thompson

  Salad, Figures, Ifs

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• Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

  Paula Deen

  Way, Kind, Seasoning

  "Deen Does 'Southern' Fare ... With A Stick Of Butter". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

  Andy Griffith

  Stupid, Yards, Proud

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, Cooking

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

  Octavia Spencer

  Racism, Perception, Racist

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

  Florence King

  World, Matter, Sin

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

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