Quotes About Raleigh

In the seventeenth century Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that 'The art of magic is the art of worshipping God'.

We saw what Thom Tillis did in Raleigh. He went to Washington and in 2017 again voted for a tax bill that provided massive giveaways to corporate interests and the wealthiest, really capitulating to those corporate interests and his special interest backers. A consistent record in Raleigh, a consistent record in Washington.

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.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.

I ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn't mean second-class.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Well, the earring tells us he was bohemian," she explained. "An earring on a man meant the same then as it does now—that the wearer was a little more fashionably racy than the average person. Drake and Raleigh were both painted with earrings. It was their way of announcing that they were of an adventurous disposition.

There was a pretty fair bike shop in McLean, and Bernstein drove there to kill a couple of hours and look halfheartedly for a replacement for his beloved Raleigh. But his mind was on Jeb Magruder. He had picked up a profoundly disturbing piece of information that day: Magruder was a bike freak. Bernstein had trouble swallowing the information that a bicycle nut could be a Watergate bugger.

I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can't lie... I missed the South since I've been gone!

I'm from Raleigh, N.C. It's my home, the most beautiful place ever - but it has some racist history.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

July 3, 1981 Raleigh There is a new cancer that strikes only homosexual men. I heard about it on the radio tonight.

The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.