Paula Deen Quotes

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

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

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.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.

We're just Southern people.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

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.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

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

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.

You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

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

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 a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.