Quotes About Carolina

Greenville, South Carolina, in 1955 was the most beautiful place in the world. Black walnut trees dropped their green-black fuzzy bulbs on Aunt Ruth's matted lawn, past where their knotty roots rose up out of the ground like the elbows and knees of dirty children suntanned dark and covered with scars. Weeping willows marched across the yard, following every wandering stream and ditch, their long whiplike fronds making tents that sheltered sweet-smelling beds of clover.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

We passed Columbia, the state furnace, inhaling hot garnet air as if straight from Aunt Bea's oven.

Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.

I was a Panthers fan growing up, being close to Carolina.

I want the Carolina Panthers to be successful.

I was born and raised in Charleston, SC.

The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

And a Northerner who had just returned from six months in South Carolina and Georgia informed Thaddeus Stevens in February 1866 that "the spirit which actuated the traitors . . . during the late rebellion is only subdued and allows itself to be nourished by leniency.

My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

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Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

It is an incredible honor and privilege to serve as the governor of this great state, and I will work to be a governor of all of North Carolina.

Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.

Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

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.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in Greg Olsen, you see how that helps a young quarterback whether he becomes a security blanket, he can turn a five-yard completion into a 15-yard gain.

There's no place like home, especially if it's Serenity, South Carolina.