Gary Rossington Quotes

Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.

I'm Southern to the bone.

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.

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

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

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.

The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

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

I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie… I missed the South since I've been gone!

I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they see that as a matter of heritage. But I do not think it should ever fly over a state, city, county building, or school, for the simple reason that it represents secession from the Union.

I am proud to be a Southerner.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

You know, I love the South.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

Derby born and bred, mate.

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.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

The statues are no big issue. They are only objects made of mud or stone.

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.