Karen Abbott Quotes

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

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.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

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.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

There's something about Southern characters.

My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.

When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People talked more slowly there and said words I had never heard before, like 'ain't' and 'y'all' and 'ma'am.' Everybody knew everybody else. Even if they didn't, they acted like they did.

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 Southern to the bone.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

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.

We're just Southern people.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

I'm too Southern.