Top Southern Family Quotes
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1. "Babcock knew no Southerners personally but he had seen them in court often enough...and Ed's manner and appearance said Dixie to him. He imagined Ed at home with his family, a big one, from old geezers to toddlers. He saw them eating their yams and pralines and playing their fiddles and dancing their jigs and guffawing over coarse jokes and beating one another to death with agricultural implements."
Author: Charles Portis
Author: Charles Portis
2. "A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children."
Author: Deborah Smith
Author: Deborah Smith
3. "Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family."
Author: Gore Vidal
Author: Gore Vidal
4. "Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings."
Author: Harper Lee
Author: Harper Lee
5. "She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?"
Author: John Burnham Schwartz
Author: John Burnham Schwartz
6. "I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies."
Author: Lance Bass
Author: Lance Bass
7. "And it was that self-same summer—June 5th, if precision is your watchword—that I first set eyes on a stringy southern hemisphere home-boy, a man-boy, a prankish puck by the name of La Roux (with very bad skin and even worse instincts), who sailed into the slow-beating heart of our half-arsed, high-strung, low-bred family, then casually capsized himself, but left us all drowning (now they don't teach you that at the Sea Scouts, do they?)."
Author: Nicola Barker
Author: Nicola Barker
8. "It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given."
Author: Sheri Holman
Author: Sheri Holman
9. "This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage."
Author: Vernor Vinge
Author: Vernor Vinge
10. "In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family."
Author: Victoria Clark
Author: Victoria Clark
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