Sandra Brown Quotes

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

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 love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

I'm too Southern.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

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.

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.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!

You know, I love the South.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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.