Southern Authors Quotes

#1. At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

Edward P. Jones

#2. Coach Noll had always told me, Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Tony Dungy

#3. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#4. As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

Willie Morris

#5. There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe.

Susan Gabriel

#6. A thought come in my mind, have the people of Gujarat elected me to adorn my home? NO ... if I want to adorn something. It will not be my home. It will be my Gujarat.

Narendra Modi

#7. Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.

George Takei

#9. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

Janisse Ray

#10. I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.

Sergio Perez

#11. F***ing triffids.

Scott B. Pruden

#12. Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.

Tim Heaton

#13. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#14. Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted

Stormie O'martian

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

Tim Heaton

#16. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Jane Austen