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Site SearchHow do you start your day? I like to begin with a thought or quote of the day - something inspirational, profound or humorous. I've compiled a few of my favorite quotes from famous North Carolinians.
What are your favorite quotes? Please share.
"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.”
Jim Valvano
"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? "
Sam Ervin
"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft."
Sam Ervin
"If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Michael Jordan
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Maya Angelou
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Billy Graham
"Education is our future — it’s everything. We must not settle for anything short of excellence in our schools."
Jim Hunt
"I don't think I'll get to heaven if I do anything to desecrate this mountain."
Grandfather Mountain Owner Hugh Morton
"I've read two books a week for 30 years....I'm satisfied I know everything."
Kaye Gibbons
Bill Leslie's Carolina Conversations
People are always asking me where to take vacation. What's a cool place? What's the most scenic drive? Carolina Conversations attempts to answer those questions and others.
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"If we had ham we could have ham and eggs...if we had eggs."
Some other favorites of mine: "Doin' it wrong till I do it right" - The Band "Love don't walk away, only people do." - Robert Earl Keen, Jr. "Heaven for the weather, hell for the company." - ?
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If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. - Ronald Reagan
"I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world." -Elvis Presley
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