Charleston Quotes

• In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

  Pat Conroy

  Mistake, Feelings, Century

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.370, Open Road Media

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• Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

  Thomas Gibson

  Rain, Cities, House

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

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• Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Mountain Ranges, Sight

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• There was very little art in my childhood. 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, Museums, Childhood

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

  Pat Conroy

  August, Afternoon, Late

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• One thing inspired me the most from the time I spent in Charleston was how much heritage and history are connected to influencing how I cook. Each dish tugged my heart in a different spot that after I finished cooking, I was really emotional and felt fulfilled at the same time.

  Shirley Chung

  Heart, Emotional, Cooking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Victory, Backyards

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Sweet, Thinking, Cities

  "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Rights, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Josephine Pinckney (2001). “Three O'Clock Dinner”, p.73, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

  Sarah Sutton

  Orchids, Dancing, Black

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• All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Laughter, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 21, 2015

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• 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, Islands, South Carolina

  "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 2002.

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• My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

  Morgan Freeman

  Parent, Memphis, Firsts

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

  Lionel Blue

  Inspirational, Dance, Mother

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• Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

  Russell D. Moore

  America, Together, Splits

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• I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Boys, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Reckoners Series”, p.129, Delacorte Press

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• According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants." "Dang it!" Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would've cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. "Did the world just turn upside down?" he asked. Jason pressed his hands to his head. "Yeah, and it's spinning. Everything is yellow. Is it supposed to be yellow?

  Rick Riordan

  Eagles, Hands, Busting Out

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• I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Office, Giving

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Safety, Criticism

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• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  David W. Blight

  Memorial Day, Song, Monday

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• To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

  Jennifer Garner

  New York, Moving, Ballerina

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• After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of Walter Scott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely.

  Tim Scott

  Life, Heart, Community

  FaceBook post by Tim Scott from Apr 08, 2015

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• If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Strong, Thinking, Able

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• The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Night, If There Is A God

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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