Carolina Quotes - page 4

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. (Patricia Cornwell)
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. View quote
Steve Harvey
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place. View quote
Charles Frazier
Bement [her art teacher] told me things to read. He told me of exhibitions to go and see [c. 1917].... the two books that he told me to get were Jeromy Eddy 'Cubists and Post-impressionism' and Kandinsky 'On the Spiritual of Art'... It was some time before I really begun to use the ideas. I didn't start at until I was down in Carolina - alone - thinking things out for myself. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me. View quote
Kathy Reichs
I don't think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents. I don't think they realize that ... these big companies like Smithfield and Cargill and others have our American farmers now living like sharecroppers in constant debt, forced to follow their rules. I've watched the suffering in North Carolina of minority communities who live around Cafos and can no longer breathe their air ... and I've seen workers in the meatpacking plants and how dangerous those plants are. Everybody is losing in this system – except for the massive corporations that have taken over the American food system. View quote
Cory Booker
This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. View quote
Jesse Helms
It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something. View quote
Jesse Helms
I think that's actually something that could hurt Trump in South Carolina and beyond if people start to see that he's not -- he says he's for the little guy, but he's actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy and he's a lot of little guys through eminent domain, or through not paying contractors after you've built something. The little guys have suffered. View quote
Kellyanne Conway
No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you. View quote
Phoebe Tonkin
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing. (Nikki Haley)
Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it. View quote
Nikki Haley
We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina. View quote
Nikki Haley
Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. View quote
Nikki Haley
The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. View quote
Nikki Haley
Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it. View quote
Nikki Haley
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' View quote
Alison Krauss
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. View quote
Althea Gibson
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. View quote
Anna Camp
Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms. View quote
Ashley Scott
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America. (Bev Perdue)
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010. View quote
Bob Inglis
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. View quote
Chris Paul
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. View quote
Chris Paul
North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving. View quote
David H. Murdock