North Carolina

North Carolina, come on and raise up! Take your shirt off; twist it 'round your head. Spin it like a helicopter! — Moses Barrett III

North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states.

A

• North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit.
  • Author unknown; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), citing a discussion of its origin and correct wording ("humility," not "humiliation" as given by Mencken in his New Dictionary of Quotations ...), and editorial comments by Henry Wiseman Kendall in the Greensboro, NC Daily News (August 26, 1962), p. B4

B

• North Carolina, come on and raise up!
  Take your shirt off; twist it 'round your head.
  Spin it like a helicopter!
  • Moses Barrett III, "Raise Up", Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry (2001)

C

• Esse quam videri
  • To be, rather than to seem
  • Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, ch. 98. In 1893, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted the Latin words as the state motto and directed that these words be placed with the state's coat of arms and the date "20 May 1775" upon the great seal

• While North Carolina has the honor of first authorizing its delegates to concur with other Colonies in declaring independence, it was quickly followed by South Carolina and Georgia, which also gave general instructions broad enough to include such action.
  • Calvin Coolidge, "Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence", Philadelphia, PA (July 5, 1926)

D

• One of the things I did in North Carolina in the seventies was to battle with the Klan because the Ku Klux Klan really controlled this state. I was telling some people during dinner that I can remember when there were big billboards of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan welcoming visitors to the various cities and towns of North Carolina. And members of the Klan appeared publicly in their garb.
  • Angela Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)

G

• Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's blessings attend her!
  While we live, we will cherish, protect and defend her;
  Tho' the scorner may sneer at, and witlings defame her,
  Still our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her.
     Hurrah! Hurrah! The Old North State Forever
     Hurrah! Hurrah! The good Old North State!
  • William Gaston, "The Old North State", st. 1
  • Collected and Arranged by Mrs. E. E. Randolph in 1926, and adopted as the official state song by the General Assembly of 1927 (Public Laws, 1927, c. 26)

O

• Maybe teen marriage is all the rage in Hicksville, North Carolina, but I swear if you marry this boy I'm gonna have annulment papers drawn up so fast...
  • "I Forgot to Remember to Forget", One Tree Hill, sn. 5, ep. 5 (29 January 2008)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on North Carolina on Wikipedia
• "The State Symbols". State Library of North Carolina (January 22, 2009)
• Eugene G. Harrell; John B. Neathery (eds.) The North Carolina Speaker (Raleigh, NC: Alfred Williams & Co., 1887)