Quotes about Southerners

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Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, — Vicki Covington, Bird of Paradise
No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person fro — Natalie Goldberg
Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I al — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free? — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton
If the least thing goes wrong with a saddle, or clothes, or a boot, you cannot find a soul to make repairs, and the othe — Louis-Philippe, Journal de mon voyage d'Amérique
A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him — Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill — Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance
He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their wor — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolk — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. — Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star
Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. T — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the vi — Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right. — Stan Shaw
It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most fina — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton
When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents b — Scott Thompson, Young Men Shall See
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. — Frances Mayes, Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been sho — Frances Mayes, Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
That's when I caught my first glimpse of Blaine Crabtree. He was sandwiched in between two guys that were laughing at wh — Magan Vernon, My Paper Heart
… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle,there just ain’t no choice about it.Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t. — Chad B. Hanson