They are poetic, often, and fitting almost always.
A few of the quotes we heard on our recent trip to Mississippi stuck with me.
The first one came from a tour guide/docent at one of the antebellum homes just as a group was assembling. Her statement wasn't as memorable as the preface "We have only a couple of tiny little rules..."
Another tour guide/docent, as she described the women who conceived of the Pilgrimage tours back in the 1930's said "Ladies will always find a way."
That same docent, as she described how much a part of the lives of even the children in the Pilgrimage is said "We pop ballet shoes on our little boys before they realize not all little boys learn to dance to get ready for Pilgrimages. They don't know that boys everywhere don't do the same thing."
"The rich magnolias covered with fragrant blossoms, the holly, the beech, the tall yellow poplar, the hilly ground and even the red clay, all excited my admiration. Such an entire change in the fall of nature in so short a time seems almost supernatural, and surrounded once more by numberless warblers and thrushes, I enjoyed the scene." Journal of James Audubon, Oakley Plantation, 1821.
My favorite from the trip, though, came from family.
It went something like this:
My sister to me "oooh, you're in a lot of trouble, Cole just posted on facebook that if you are in NOLA or its environs and did not call him, you are on his list?!"
It didn't me long to be ringing his phone. You see, there is this other thing about southern quotes and statements: they mean it.
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