Southern Quotes - page 4

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. (Gerrit Smith)
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music. View quote
Gillian Welch
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. View quote
James Green
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars. View quote
John Henninger Reagan
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. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. View quote
John Shelton Reed
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? View quote
John Shelton Reed
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. View quote
John Shelton Reed
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. View quote
Jaime King
As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney. (Kidada Jones)
I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. View quote
Katy Mixon
I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought. View quote
Louise Fletcher
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined. View quote
Lynn Collins
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. View quote
Laurie Metcalf
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me. View quote
Margaret Walker
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. View quote
Mary Steenburgen
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. View quote
Michael Stipe
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent. View quote
Michael W. Smith
I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent. (Nikki DeLoach)
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. View quote
Parker Stevenson
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously. View quote
Rachel Miner
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. View quote
Robert Morgan
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. View quote
Robert Morgan