Top 230 Carolina Quotes

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.
Sean McDermott
I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them – if you can find any.
Ted Yoho
North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges’ bench.
Roy Cooper
I went to North Carolina to play football.
Mickey Rivers
I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.
Brian Tyree Henry
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
Constance Baker Motley
Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.
Nikki Haley
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.
John Lawson
At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it’s different.
Harrison Barnes
Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.
Bob Etheridge
Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just so

Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just sort of my mom to me. I never really recognized her as a famous actress. I’m always thrilled when she’s cleaning out her closet. Last time, I got a pair of boots that she bought in Paris 20 years ago. I have completely worn them out.
Margaret Qualley
The coronavirus is not causing our health care problems in South Carolina. But it will likely make them worse – and increase the burden on working people – if we don’t take action in a decisive way.
Jaime Harrison
South Carolina needs a Senator who cares about South Carolina, who fights for you, who understands and feels your pain, and works to address it.
Jaime Harrison
No matter where you put me, I don’t care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I’m going to be who I am.
Chris Paul
I came from the independent scene, and I’ve wrestled in front of a crowd of four people in a car lot in 104 degrees in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Mickie James
I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Joseph Bruchac
I’m writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Nicholas Sparks
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
On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in our own lives – in the lives of our parents and our grandparents. We don’t need reminders.
Nikki Haley
I would love to see the Replacements get back together at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, because I never got to see them live and I love Charleston.
Paul F. Tompkins
If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana – what are you talking about? You’re always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.
Ben Howland
The Super Bowl ring eluded me, but I don’t need that to validate me. I would have loved to have helped deliver that to the fans in Carolina, but I’m content with the career that I had.
Julius Peppers
In rural North Carolina, you find strong people who are driven by purpose and committed to working together: neighbor helping neighbor. You will find local farms like I used to work on, and family-owned businesses, like I used to own.
Roy Cooper
Well, I’m from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.
Anna Camp
Most people know that Lita has been, as far as my wrestling career is concerned, a big influence even before I came to the WWE. We met when I was working the independent scene in North Carolina. She’s always been so kind to me and helped me out a lot.
Mickie James
I’m a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.
Rhiannon Giddens
Better teacher pay combined with scholarships in exchange for teaching in our public schools can help North Carolina attract and keep talented teachers.
Roy Cooper
My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the ’50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of the first sit-ins in North Carolina.
Boots Riley
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
James L. Petigru
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won’t: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful.
Jaime Harrison
Tourism is our No. 1 industry in South Carolina.
Jeff Duncan
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
I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I’m from, the people are known as Gullah people. They’re some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.
Brian Stelfreeze
In Raleigh, partisan battles, power struggles and lawsuits might grab the headlines, but we have to work together where we can. To look beyond ourselves to see what’s right for the state, regardless of who’s in power. That’s what the people of North Carolina want us to do, and what common sense demands us to do.
Roy Cooper
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.
Charles Frazier
I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch’s Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.
Nigel Hamilton
I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
Bob Beckel
I don’t consider myself at the kind of stature of somebody who can play five cities on a tour, and that’s it. I go where I’m wanted, and I’ve always had the rural areas of the country. We’ve always gone there, since the Carolina Chocolate Drops. There’s a fan base that’s there, and if I can afford to do it, I do it.
Rhiannon Giddens
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
I went to private school, but I’ve got family from North Carolina.
John David Washington
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacc

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
Al Lewis
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
John Shelton Reed
Many industries in my home state of North Carolina will greatly benefit from the USMCA.
Mark Meadows
I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and justice no longer becomes just, we’re in a world of trouble.
Jaime Harrison
I was doing chemistry in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. It was the first time I’d lived alone, and I had an epiphany while I was spending a lot of time watching TV and decided I wanted try acting.
Retta
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
Nikki Haley
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro’ the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
John Lawson
I headed off to Yale, and eventually Georgetown Law, but I never forgot where I came from. I came back to South Carolina to teach 9th grade social studies.
Jaime Harrison
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie – the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.
Rebecca Traister
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
I was born in South Carolina. On my dad’s farm, I didn’t have much. I’m just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.
Chubby Checker
I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
Trey Gowdy
I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.
Paula Jean Swearengin
After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We’d ride around together talking and listening to music.
Brian Tyree Henry
In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves.
Jack Schlossberg