Ronnie Van Zant Quotes

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

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.

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.

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'm Southern to the bone.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

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.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

There's something about Southern characters.

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.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

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

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 too Southern.

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

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

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

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.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

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.

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

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

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

What can I say? I'm a Southern girl.