Southern Nostalgia Quotes

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

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.

'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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.