Carolina Quotes - Page 5

• In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Views, Color, People

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

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• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

  Andy Griffith

  Home, Connections, Television

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Army, Fate

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• Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Swings, Wish

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• Just look at what this corrupt establishment has done to our cities like Detroit; Flint, Michigan; and rural towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and all across our country. Take a look at what's going on. They stripped away these town bare. And raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away out of our country never to return unless I'm elected president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Taken

  "TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations". www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Premiums are soaring double digits in North Carolina, beyond anybody's wildest expectations. [Obamacare] is a disaster and you're - and you know what's going on. Your country will be left with only one insurer. You're going to have nothing, everyone's leaving. And you have one insurer.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Obamacare, Expectations

  Source: time.com

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• When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Years, Cities

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• Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dying, North Carolina, Doe

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Unique, Voice

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch Pet Cemetery as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldnt sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

  Jessica Stroup

  Sleep, Kids, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Father, Squares

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  College, Giving, Community

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

  Daniella Alonso

  New York, Impact, House

  "Daniella Alonso Leaves Her 'Caliente' Mark in Hollywood" by Mayara Guimaraes, www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2012.

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• I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.

  Pete Seeger

  New York, Father, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Gail Simmons

  Swimming, Rivers, Tree

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• South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

  Pat Conroy

  South Carolina, States, Cult

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.61, Nan A. Talese

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• In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Numbers, Giving, Criticism

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• I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  Shay Carl

  Jobs, Doors, North Carolina

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• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  Pat Conroy

  Intellectual, South Carolina, Roles

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• One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions.

  Tim Scott

  Forgiveness, Country, People

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