Quotes About Southern

One or two wrong turns where I'm from could put you on a path that's hard to reverse... We had to stick together to get through down South.

I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.

In Alabama, we have ribs with a white sauce, which is really great.

The incorrigibles . . . still indulge in the swagger which was so customary before and during the war, and still hope for a time when the Southern confederacy will achieve its independence. This class consists mostly of young men, and comprise the loiterers of the towns and the idlers of the country.

You hear all this talk about Southern hospitality. And they'll break their necks for you, all right, if you're family. Or if you've lived here for a hundred years. But if you're a stranger …

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

I would suggest one to book a cab or take a bus from Birmingham and visit the coastline in Cornwall. Located in the southern part of the country, Cornwall has a coastline of over 400 miles.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

The funniest women I've known are Southern. It is such a vital way to get what you want. Charm and grace and a sense of humor will take you a long way.

My voice is obviously real southern - I automatically lean country.

Voice of the Spirit' was a project I'd been talking about for a long time. It began as an Appalachian record. But it's a record of all pure Southern gospel.

All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I've been proud to call Southern Nevada home for more than 35 years and it's been an incredible place to work, raise a family, care for my parents and volunteer in the community.

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it," the president said. "These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war." There was no escaping this central truth.

Calhoun called "the peculiar domestic institution of the Southern states.

The day before me undresses in the wet southern heat

Nonslaveholding free white men and women managed to grow corn and cotton on their farms in Alabama and Mississippi, as they did elsewhere in the South, generally for household consumption and local markets.181 (And after emancipation, cotton production in the southern United States would far surpass antebellum levels.)

In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.