#carolina

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#destiny #island #landscape #luck #south-carolina

Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#nostalgia #small-town #south-carolina #spring #beauty

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. ↗

— Catfish Hunter

#couple #friends #gave #had #here

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #carolina #companies #country #create

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do. ↗

— Kay Hagan

#better #carolina #i #important #looking

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#areas #carolina #centers #charlotte #current

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#district #forces #key #long #military

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

— Chris Hughes

#carolina #child #financial #financial aid #i

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#any #carolina #find #i #mad

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

— Al Lewis

#carolina #down #food #i #north