Southern Quotes
06/24/2005
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Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you're born,
it's an idea and state of
mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than
loving fried chicken, sweet tea, football, and country
music. it's being hospitable, devoted to front
porches, magnolias, moon pies and coca-cola... and
each other. We don't become Southern - we're born that
way.
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When life hands you lemons... squeeze them into some sweet iced tea and thank
God you were born a
southern girl!
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In the South, the breeze
blows softer... neighbors are friendlier, nosier, and more talkative. (By
contrast
with the Yankee, the Southerner never uses one
word when ten or twenty will do). This is a different
place. Our way of thinking is different, as are
our ways of seeing, laughing, singing, eating, meeting
and parting. Our walk is different, as the old
song goes, our talk and our names. Nothing about us is
quite the same as in the country to the north and
west. What we carry in our memories is different,
too and that may explain everything else.
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Girls like us don't come around too
often. Like us, and you'll grow to love us. Hate us, and you're
wasting your time. You can't beat us and you sure
as hell can't join us.
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"All I can say is that there's a sweetness here, a Southern sweetness, that
makes sweet music. . . . If I
had to tell somebody who had never been to the
South, who had never heard of soul music, what it was,
I'd just have to tell him that it's music from
the heart, from the pulse, from the innermost feeling. That's
my soul; that's how I sing. And that's the
South."
-- Al Green
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"Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every
party this spring. I get so
bored I could scream."
- Scarlett O'Hara
})({ Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes--Northerners.
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable
simply cannot be
changed, driven away or shot they will not only
tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
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The biggest myth about
Southern women is that we are frail types--fainting on our sofas...nobody where
I grew up every acted like that. We were
about as fragile as coal trucks.
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Snow in the South is wonderful. It has a kind of magic and mystery that it has
nowhere else. And the
reason for this is that it comes to people
in the South not as the grim, unyielding tenant of Winter's
keep, but as a strange and wild visitor
from the secret North.
})({ The South--where roots, place, family, and tradition are the essence of identity.
})({ Southerners can claim kin with anybody. It's one of our most dextrous talents.
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In the South, perhaps more than any other region, we go back to our home in
dreams and memories,
hoping it remains what it was on a lazy,
still summer's day twenty years ago.
})({ A southern girl is a
girl who knows full and well that she can open a door for herself but prefers
for the
gentleman to do it because it demonstrates a
sense of respect. After all, every girl wants to be treated
like a princess. We know how to make sweet tea
and grits while telling you everything about any football
team in the SEC. We pick our battles and fight
with the heart of a pit bull while still maintaining grace
and elegance. Our mystique is that of a
soft-spoken, mild-mannered southern bell who could direct an
army, loves her momma and will always be daddy's
little girl.