15 Southerner Quotes for You to Enjoy

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast. Bruce Feiler

Myself Great Me Learning Age Culture College Air Way Out About Joining Great Way Learned Discount Leaving South Up North Southerner Northeast Going Different Grew Act Fare Found

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter. Corey Stewart

Matter Nothing Worse Monuments Telling Yankee His Than Southerner

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. E. O. Wilson

Addition Write Because Southern Southerner Wanted Novel

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines. Jim Brown

Politics Knowledge Rights Conservative Sometimes Big Party Lyndon Lyndon Johnson Liberal Kind Civil Follow Civil Rights Something Johnson Could He Takes Always Got Passed Came Lines Person Southerner Get Done Bill Special Kennedy

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

People Problem Smart Every Think Liberal Kind Like Knows Clinton Labels Southerner Southerners Quite Maybe Bill Bill Clinton

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. Karin Slaughter

Life Religion Sex Make Southerner Being Interested Interesting Things Violence

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life. Kimberly Willis Holt

Life Myself Military Consider Hurricane Born Adult Adult Life Over Most Texas Louisiana Southerner Moved Place Dad Lived Florida

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. Parker Posey

Glad New She Left Very Southern Southerner York Move New York

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

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried. Sandra Brown

Will Eat Something Baked Fried Southerner Deep

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. Flannery O'Connor

Innocence Those Weaknesses Southerner Proceed Tolerant