#carolina

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #north-carolina #novel #life

Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #south-carolina #story

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 grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#carolina #charlotte #concord #farming #grew

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

#almost #back #carolina #create #driving

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#carolinas #exports #great #population #quite

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

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#common #common knowledge #cunning #domination #government

Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#become #bmw #carolina #cars #cells

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