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Southern Quotes

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it’s actually – geographically and emotionally – more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

– David Sanborn

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

– Michael W. Smith

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I’m Southern.

– Mary Steenburgen

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

– Nora Ephron

You can’t do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

– Katy Mixon

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

– John McCarthy

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

– Joe Tex

There’s no such thing as being too Southern.

– Lewis Grizzard

I’ve got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I’m from the South – Tennessee, to be exact – and down there, we’re all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

– Miley Cyrus

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

– Kathie Lee Gifford

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.

– Richard Engel

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

– Peter Mayle

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

– Robert Morgan

Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

– Ram Charan

We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

– Ron Johnson

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

– Reynolds Price

‘Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

– Tyler Perry

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

– Trisha Yearwood

I’m such a Southern girl.

– Solange Knowles

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

– Vicki Lawrence

For breakfast I have grits, because I’m a Southern girl!

– Shanola Hampton

Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It’s more of a campus.

– Zac Brown

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

– William H. Seward

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

– Sylvia Earle

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

– William H. Seward

I formally proposed. I’m a good Southern gentleman.

– Vince Gill

I’m Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

– Willard Scott

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

– Tom Tancredo

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

– Viktor Orban

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