Charles Kuralt Quotes

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.

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

You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve.

You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.

You might be a redneck if your most expensive shoes have numbers on the heels.

You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.

You might be a redneck if the UFO hotline limits you to one call a day.

Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

You might be a redneck if you look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet 'Ms. Right

You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks.

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I’ll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.