Southern Living Quotes

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

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

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Atlanta has always been my favorite place to go, even when I was 'in the world.' When I came down here, people used to show me a lot of love.

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.

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

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

I'm a Georgia Southern boy.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.