Hillary Scott Quotes

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

I'm a black man from the South. I like my food!

It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me.

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

You know, I love the South.

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.

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.

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

The crowds have always been known to be pretty loud and wild in the South.

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

There are things I like about fancy Southern food and there are things I really love from just down-home Southern cooking. So mixing those two together would probably be right up my alley.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

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.

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

I'm a southern gentleman.

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.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.