Southern Charm Quotes

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.

Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.

I'm from Clearwater, Florida, and I love Nashville so much I don't even really miss the beach.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.

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

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.

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

Florida is nice, but Texas is my favorite state.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

I was born and raised in Charleston, SC.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

New Orleans is my kind of city. I think there's a lot going on, but it's also very calm. It's a place where I can actually drive a car without being stuck in traffic for for 40, 50 minutes. It's my kind of city. A lot going on but still calm.

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

[Andy Griffith] is so great. He's just a dream. He's a beautiful man and so professional. I think he had more to say, script-wise, than anyone else, and when you're older it's not easy to memorize lines.

The energy in Atlanta is a different type of energy.