North Carolina Quotes - Page 2

• My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

  Howard Coble

  Home, Healthy, United States

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• I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, Firsts

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• I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Stories, Literature

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion.

  Mel Watt

  President, Citizens, Plans

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• 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

  Retirement, School, Trying

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• Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

  Richard Burr

  Priorities, Benefits, Administration

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• This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

  Jesse Helms

  Political, Doe, Figures

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, Unions, Workers

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• Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Kentucky, Numbers

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• I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Dairy, Farmers

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

  Earl Scruggs

  Soil, Carolina

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• I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

  James Taylor

  Growing Up, Thinking, Soul

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 17, 2013.

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• Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Apples, Justice

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• Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Andy Griffith Show, Shows

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• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.

  Kay Hagan

  Strong, Children, Hard Work

  "Kay Hagan DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• 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

  Names, Development, Hurricanes

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• Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

  Bev Perdue

  Powerful, Believe, Having Fun

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• I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Parent, Only Child

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• 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

  Thinking, Driving, Checklists

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• 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

  Mother, Two, Wife

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• Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

  Mike Easley

  Country, School, College

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

  Ken Jeong

  Wrestling, Grew Up, Carolina

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• I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

  Anna Camp

  Art, School, College

  "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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