Charleston South Carolina Quotes

• There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Museums, Childhood

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

  Pat Conroy

  August, Afternoon, Late

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• There was very little art in my childhood.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Childhood, Littles

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

  Josh Lucas

  Funny, Islands, South Carolina

  "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 2002.

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• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  David W. Blight

  Memorial Day, Song, Monday

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• The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Night, If There Is A God

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Rights, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Years, Earthquakes, California

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