#southern

There's no such thing as being too Southern. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#southern #such #thing #too

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#bit #change #different #just #language

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well. ↗

— Dave Haywood

#brown #charles #come #had #i

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#black #church #guess #i #liberal

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. ↗

— Beth Henley

#department #had #i #methodist #off

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#been #being #come #dark #dark side

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #crop #food #half #increase

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #southern-vampire #love

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#father #knowing #little #man #many

The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism. Virginia is a product of the eighteenth century. It's impossible to extract a belle from the Age of Reason. ↗

— Florence King

#age-of-romanticism #southern-belle #virginia #age