10 Favorite Southern Quotes

Being southern chances are I have heard every saying out there. I have also had to answer all the weird questions like “Are your parents brother and sister?” FYI… they aren’t! In fact my daddy was a Yankee. Nobody’s perfect! I thought I would roundup ten of my favorite quotes about the south and being southern. They are from all over the place and I hope that y’all (yes that is a word in fact, my phone no longer auto corrects that puppy) enjoy them.   Some you may have heard before, while others may be new to you.

1. Explanations

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. 

Woodrow Wilson

This could not be truer! People can say the weirdest things and I get it. For example when I hear Todd Chrisley talking, I know what he is saying. Even if it sounds odd to other people I get it. 

2. No Offense

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being. 

Clyde Edgerton

Sorry to all those not born in the south. Y’all are totally awesome just not as awesome as we are! (Just kidding, please don’t send hate mail)

3. Habits

In the North, he discovered, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

Mary Doria Russell

This is true, my mother would tan my hide if I wasn’t polite. I do my best to be polite no matter what. Even to the cashier in the grocery store who wouldn’t bag my groceries but rather pushed them out of the way to start on the next custom. I told her to have a blessed day. Then went home and told everyone they were not to shop there ever again. Okay, I hold a bit of a grudge but I was toilet about it. 

4. Truth

I’ll have you know Southern isn’t a synonym for stupid.

Janice Lane Palko

I can’t tell you how often people think I am stupid because of the accent I have. They tend to talk down to me. My advice for be: Don’t let the accent fool you. You’d be surprised just how smart the majority of southerners are.

5. Maybe

Southerners know you can’t be considered a serious Southern cook if you don’t know how to make peach cobbler.

Trisha Yearwood

Okay, I haven’t made a peach cobbler. Not because I don’t know how but because I hate baked fruit. So I might be trouble here. 

6. Stories

Southerners make such good novelists; they have so many good stories because they have so much family.

Gore Vidal

This is certainly true. Southerners tend to have a lot family. Even some they only call family. My brother in-law is related to the whole town they live in. I swear he is. Every time I meet someone he tells me they are a cousin or something. 

7. Amen

There’s no such thing as being too Southern.

Lewis Grizzard

No one knows as much about being southern as Lewis Grizzard. If you have never read any of his work I highly recommend it. Someone gave my dad his They Tore My Heart Out and Stomped that Sucker Flat when he had open heart surgery. I read it after he did and laughed the whole time. It was some much needed humor in a trying time.

8. Food

Southerners equate food with love, so if you love what they cook, they’re sure to love you back.  

Kim Holloway

Yep! I feed everyone I love. If I don’t like you I barely offer a =glass of tea.  If you love my food, you get more often. Just ask any of my friends.When we do potluck they always make requests.

9. Southern Women

Southern women see no contradiction in mixing strength with gentleness. 

Sharon McKern

This could not be more true either. Southern women are strong yet have a gentleness about them that is simply bred into them. Just look at Scarlet O’Hara, she is what all southern women are taught to be. Well minus all the men chasing.

10. The South

 The South where roots, place, family, and tradition are the essence of identity.-

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The south is what defines who we are. It is home and home is where the heart is.