Thom Tillis Quotes

I am proud to be a Southerner.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

The South is the only part of the country that has been defeated; the rest of the country, unlike most people in the world have never been conquered. But the Southerners have …. The South is the soul of America.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

The South is the last place with a sense of place.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

We're just Southern people.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.

North Carolinians are hard-working common-sense, decent and stubbornly independent people.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.

You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.