Quotes About Southern Living

#1. Time doesn't actually heal anything, but a large enough dose will eventually act as an anesthetic.

Stephen H. Banks

#2. As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

Ed Begley Jr.

#3. To living in the South: If you've never had a Porterhouse, everything tastes like baloney.

Tim Heaton

#4. As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Alison Lurie

#5. 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

#6. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Nancy B. Brewer

#7. You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

Jeff Foxworthy

#8. Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life.

Brandi L. Bates

#9. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Kate Chopin

#10. An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

Dwyane Wade

#11. Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in LA had to believe that there was a chance to thrive. Living in Southern California was like waking up in a children's book titled Would Be If I Could Be.

Walter Mosley

#12. Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

Emily Giffin

#13. You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Alan Light

#14. Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors.

Henci Goer

#15. The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

Rick Bragg

#16. On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

Anne Lamott

#17. It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living.

Darynda Jones

#18. Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

Flannery O'Connor

#19. Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

Tori Kelly

#20. Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

Al Michaels

#21. I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Jay Parini

#22. I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Tommy Shaw

#23. I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color.
Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend.

Charlaine Harris