342 Southern Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's no such thing as being too Southern. Lewis Grizzard

Too Southern Being Thing

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. John Henrik Clarke

Family Son People Young Way Collage Constantly Could Troubled Know How Answers Were Reference Questions Southern Articulate North North American American Did Behaviors Eldest Ask Notions Inhumanity Series Alabama

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. Walter Cronkite

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. E. O. Wilson

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt. Harry Dean Stanton

Bible Up Southern Southern Baptist Grew Baptist Belt

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. John Henrik Clarke

Me History Learning First Become Own Worried Kind Spirit About Blacks Clay Feel Town Southern Subscribed Being Different Wanted Land Different Kind Farmer Teaching Daddy Alabama Bones

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City. Justin Townes Earle

Good Cooking Dog Tea Sweet Down Nice Swimming Back Out City Pretty Eating Weeks Miss New House Ready Spread Coming Nashville Go Lot Southern Get York New York New York City Here Two Two Weeks

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that. Rachel Bloom

Death Me Happy People Anxiety Water Thinking Other Everyone Out About Seemed Like Particularly California Because Around Felt Always Fish Fit Up Very Southern Southern California Did Grew Many Hometown

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. Robbie Robertson

Love Music Old Singing Beginning Mountains Down Harp Out Something Delta Stuff Like Mississippi Hills Rock Rock And Roll Am Up Southern Louisiana Roll Blues Places Fascinated

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for. Ronnie Montrose

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music. Tom Araya

Music Own Our East East Coast Developed California Genre Metal Metallica Still Were Anthrax Years Up Southern North Southern California America After Coast Each Started Playing

'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear. Tom Petty

Best Home Morning Song Down Think Late Would Piano Had Studio Wrote Accents Been Southern Quite Just Middle Happened Really Appear Play Early Started Night Early Morning

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. A. J. Liebling

You Before Colder Way About Dawn Tent Hours Know Bedding Southern Than Get Roll Any Tunisia Ground Two Sleep

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. Aaron Paul

Car Father Fire Minister Lighting Southern Southern Baptist Just Baptist

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality. Abigail Spencer

Kind Small Mentality Town Up Southern Grew

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. Al Jourgensen

Me Punk Think Punk Rock Pretty Metal Rock Well-Rounded Rock Bands Southern Bands Stones Influenced Really Zeppelin Basic Floyd

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. Al Michaels

Fight Song Better Looking Living Top Entire Week Tennessee Miss Looking Forward California Hearing Rocky End Southern Than Southern California December Forward Actually Nebraska Here

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