Quotes About Southern

'Squidbillies' is pretty educational.

Perhaps the Negro musicians had not been able to give enough because they were inhibited by her Southern-supremacy origins.

I wish I was in de land ob cotton,Old times dar am not forgotten.Look away, look away,Look away, Dixie Land.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.

Yes, I live in Manhattan - and yes, I'm a cast member on 'The Real Housewives of New York' - but deep down, I'm still a southern gal from Virginia at heart.

Memories of my Southern upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, always include the smell of good southern food: fried chicken, cheese grits, Smithfield ham, and buttermilk biscuits.

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

For example, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have about four times the number of heart attacks per thousand compared with Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.1 This implies that the dietary habits of people in those southern states are exceedingly dangerous.

You mustn't be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There's more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky.

She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

Yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd, I knew all them guys.

One prominent Democrat, South Carolina governor (and later senator) Ben Tillman, explained how this came about. "Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is superior. That's why we Southerners are all Democrats."4