Carter Quotes

• If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

  David Horowitz

  Birthday, Kings, Holiday

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• It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

  Ted Cruz

  Giving, Jimmy

  "Ted Cruz speech stokes 2016 speculation". www.politico.com.

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• My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

  Deana Carter

  Father

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• Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Want, Sticks, Speak

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• Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

  Thuy Trang

  Stars, Thinking, America

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

  Thuy Trang

  Encouragement, Strong, Giving

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• I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

  Megan Gallagher

  Willing

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• I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.”

  Jimmy Carter

  Book, Home, Sunday

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Names, Born

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• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leaving, Bob, Toes

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• At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Giving

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  Evil, President, Bob

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• I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Years, People

  "Harper Lee to publish new book, sequel to 'Mockingbird'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2015.

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• And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

  Kami Garcia

  Uncles, Links, Firsts

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• She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Hands, Allies

  Ally Carter (2013). “Double Crossed (Free Story)”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Boat, Strategy

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  Ben Webster

  Kings, Play, Two

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• When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Growing Up, Want, Married With Children

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• Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if you are consistently wrong, it's even better. You're really one of them if you're really wrong all the time. Look at Jimmy Carter.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Looks, Facts, Liberalism

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• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uniforms, Television, Wonder Woman

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

  Big Sean

  Rap, School, Dedication

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• Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter

  Nicholas Sparks

  Journey, Love Is, Wind

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Apr 10, 2014

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• No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted.

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Cities, House

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• Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

  Rick Riordan

  Compliment, Ancient, Egyptian

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