Top 230 Carolina Quotes

Five states – Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina – have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks – stacks over 500 feet – were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.
Sheldon Whitehouse
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Josh Mandel
‘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
I’ve been down to the University of South Carolina, University of Maryland, Clemson, spent some time on different college campuses and I see that small-town family environment.
Jermaine O’Neal
I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I’ve lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.
Jaime Harrison
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co’operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
Abraham Whipple
From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example, Franklin Roosevelt won more than 98 percent of the vote in South Carolina.
Steve Kornacki
I believe that North Carolina is Strong, Resilient and Ready to face the challenges of the future.
Roy Cooper
Fortunately we’ve been shooting in North Carolina which means we’re not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what’s going on in the business.
Katie Holmes
Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.
Jeff Duncan
As political primaries approach, national media attention focuses on Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Richard Grenell
I’m from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn’t think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don’t know what’s next.
Fortune Feimster
Clean drinking water is vital to every person and community in North Carolina and stopping threats to our water safety is a top priority for state government.
Roy Cooper
The people of western North Carolina are the only people I care about.
Madison Cawthorn
Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father’s folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn’t do this and offer me this background, I wouldn’t be here.
Ving Rhames
We can embrace the idea of a North Carolina that’s truly for all of us.
Roy Cooper
God bless the people of the State of South Carolina.

God bless the people of the State of South Carolina.
Nikki Haley
I think that we definitely want to experiment, and if there’s a hip-hop song that we like, we’ll cover it. We don’t want to be one of those bands that’s like, you know, you know – Carolina Chocolate Drops does hip-hop. I mean, just know – you know, if it naturally works itself in, you know, cool.
Rhiannon Giddens
Bears fans… man… I could not have chosen a better place to make my first stop outside of North Carolina.
Julius Peppers
I got tired of walking through Durham with people screaming ‘Carolina’ at me when I walk through Walmart and stuff like that.
Rodney Hood
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
I’ve got nothing but very fond memories of my time in Carolina, both at the Panthers and in the community with the friends we made, our experiences and vacations we took.
Sean McDermott
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
Hannah Storm
I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family’s roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
Diplo
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
Bev Perdue
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.
Kathy Reichs
I’m really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found that the largest settlement of Hebridean islanders outside of Scotland was right there in North Carolina.
Rhiannon Giddens
Not a day goes by that I don’t look at myself in the mirror and ask God, ‘Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?’
Ainsley Earhardt
I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.
Jonathan Majors
I think we’ve got a pretty good track record of definitively opposing Obamacare in the state of North Carolina.
Thom Tillis
As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I’ve proven I’m a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.
Thom Tillis
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Stanley Hauerwas
I fight for the things that I care about, which are jobs and the economy. I fight for the things I think are important, which are reducing the debt and getting more companies to come to South Carolina.
Nikki Haley
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, ‘Jim Rash’ just screams ‘Southern boy.’
Jim Rash
I love my Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera, Vera Wang. I’ve grown up with them.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
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 couldn’t sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.
Jessica Stroup
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
William Gibson
I’d never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
Dean Smith
I started in local news in South Carolina, so viewers there supported me. We had a morning show that we put to No. 1, and then I moved to San Antonio, Texas, and we became the No. 1 morning show there, too.
Ainsley Earhardt
It’s almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
Kurt Busch
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Althea Gibson
When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.
Thom Tillis
My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I’m so lucky she didn’t get caught, because I wouldn’t be here.
John David Washington
Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.
Jaime Harrison
‘The Choirboys’ is very much a product of its mid-1970s time, especially in its two-dimensional portrayals of cop groupies Ora Lee and Carolina Moon, but the energy of Wambaugh’s newfound, blackly comedic voice is a revelation, a trap-door opening into all facets of a policeman’s world.
Sarah Weinman
Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.
Virgil Goode
Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.
Thom Tillis
I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that every

I embrace the idea that we need to make sure that everyone has coverage – that everybody in North Carolina should have access to quality, affordable care.
Cal Cunningham
I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn’t gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.
Christian Laettner
I like good Mexican food, and there’s not a lot of that around North Carolina.
Kyle Busch
There were so many times I was called to go do a match and drive 8 or 9 hours from North Carolina to Orlando, Florida just to go do the NXT extra spots and then nothing, which would break my heart every time, but I was just very young then.
Tessa Blanchard
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
Ezra Stiles
I’m a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
Scotty McCreery
North Carolina is a terrific place to live, work, and raise a family.
Roy Cooper
I moved to New York City from Texas in 2007, where I lived for two years. Before that, I lived in South Carolina for the majority of my life.
Ainsley Earhardt
My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He’s very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.
Boots Riley
I want to go back to North Carolina to do what I started to do in coaching, Not what it got to be at Texas.
Mack Brown