One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.