Quotes About Southern Family

#1. I have a tight-knit Southern family.

Blake Lively

#2. My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

Carol Bartz

#3. I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

Vicki Lawrence

#4. In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.

Victoria Clark

#5. I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

#6. For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

Mark Twain

#8. There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

Sally Mann

#9. 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.

Lynn Collins

#10. I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

Rick Astley

#11. Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Paul D. Boyer

#12. I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.

Ted Danson

#13. It's the greatest of Southern honors ... to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

Sheri Holman

#14. When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food ... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

Cat Cora

#15. And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

James Ellroy

#16. My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Omari Hardwick

#17. Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect.
On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a
language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I'm a Southern woman.

Patricia H. Graham

#18. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.

Carolyn Haines

#19. I promise not to draw blood, if you promise not to weep.

Deborah Harkness

#20. This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

Vernor Vinge

#21. My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

Gore Vidal

#22. Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

Paula Deen

#23. My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

Laura Lippman

#24. She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?

John Burnham Schwartz

#25. What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.

Brian Kolodiejchuk

#26. It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Edward Ball

#27. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Pat Conroy

#28. My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

Missi Pyle

#29. A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.
I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

Deborah Smith

#30. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

#31. I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

Faith Hill