Carolina Quotes

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
Tori Amos

Family, Christmas, Car

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt

Work, Time, Society

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Elizabeth Edwards

School, College, Three

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Writing, Story

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
Elton John

Big, Beginning, Quite

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
James Taylor

Nice, Father, Real

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
William Perry

Between, Rights, South

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.
Robin Hayes

Long, Nation, Military

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
Jim DeMint

Country, Less, Create

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
Robin Hayes

Future, Different, Two

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
Nicholas Sparks

Life, Live, Writing

South Carolina is a great place to be from.
Tim Scott

Great, Place, South

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
Josh Turner

Thought, Able, Far

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Gail Simmons

Love, Old, Trees

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
Skeet Ulrich

Small, Outside, Town

Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
Lindsey Graham

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
James Van Der Beek

Through, Few, Quite

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

Mother, Wife, Down

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.
Nikki Haley

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
Constance Baker Motley

Black, College, Last

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
Joe Frazier

Time, Men, Keep

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.
Steve Harvey

Nothing, Decisions, Church

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
Chris Hughes

Parents, Living, Child

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
Josh Lucas

Funny, Small, Living

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.
Tim Scott

Character, Judge, Country

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
Tim Scott

Amazing, Live, Country

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
Jasper Johns

Art, Nothing, Artists

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
Kurt Busch

Time, Almost, Create

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
John Shelton Reed

Politics, Third, Rail

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis

Put, Place, Around

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