Top 100 Carter Quotes
#1. (Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you.
Tijan
#2. Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress.
Conan O'Brien
#3. The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - "
"When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it."
"Yes," Zia said.
"Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?
Rick Riordan
#4. When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
David Rubenstein
#5. Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
Charles Phillips
#6. Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.
Jay Leno
#7. The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk.
"Wax," Carter pronounced.
"Fascinating.
Rick Riordan
#8. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Jimmy Carter
#9. I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.
Lynn Collins
#10. It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#11. I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
Andre Previn
#12. After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards.
Rick Riordan
#13. If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
Robert Glasper
#14. telling the jokes - was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?
Donald E. Westlake
#15. The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
Ronald Reagan
#16. I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
Bob Uecker
#17. I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.
Kurt Cobain
#18. Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Ronald Reagan
#19. Mrs. Carter raised her chin. "The essence of a lady comes from within," she said in a gentle but firm tone. "A lady can wear rags, but as long as she holds her head up and carries herself proudly, people will see her, not her clothing.
Debra Holland
#20. Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Ann Coulter
#21. I found that things weren't going well upstairs.
Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.
Rick Riordan
#22. Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.
Sirio Maccioni
#23. I'd appreciate a phone call before you try to break into my office again-Matthew Carter
Natasha Larry
#24. It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
John McCain
#25. Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.
James Sallis
#26. It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Abbey Lincoln
#27. John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
Junot Diaz
#28. Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it. - Stephen Carter, Integrity
Bill Gates Sr.
#29. Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#30. Lynn looks up at him to see if he's serious. "What?" he asks her. "If anybody is gonna put Carter's head through the wall, it should be me."
EJ's eyes snap open, and he scoots away from me slowly. I'll remember this, Wingman!
Brent Crawford
#31. I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
Bill Joy
#33. My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.
Rick Riordan
#34. Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.
Rush Limbaugh
#35. More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.
Eric Alterman
#36. Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'
Barack Obama
#37. So let me get this straight," Carter said. "The two guys you liked - one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he's a god - are now one guy, who isn't dying and isn't off-limits. And you're complaining.
Rick Riordan
#38. Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth", and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point? - Sadie Carter (Red Pyramid)
Rick Riordan
#39. Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical.
Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
Kool Keith
#40. Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
Joan Didion
#41. Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.
John Grisham
#42. I was pretty fruity based solely on my appreciation for Nick Carter." "You even had those fucking trading cards," I said, smiling at the memory. "You were a lame kid.
Santino Hassell
#43. And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#44. This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.
June Carter Cash
#45. The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
Duke Ellington
#46. Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.
David Limbaugh
#47. President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."
Bob Dole
#48. I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!
Percy Sledge
#49. Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#50. I could almost imagine him as a leader of men without laughing hysterically. [Why are you glaring at me, Carter? That was quite a generous description.] Carter
Rick Riordan
#51. Doing what is right will always keep you moving forward toward your destiny, but choosing the wrong way will keep you stuck in the same spot:No Where!
-Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#52. We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds.
(Carter says I should tell you why it's called that. It's a cave full of all sorts of birds. Again
duh. [Carter, why are you banging your head against the table?])
Rick Riordan
#53. [Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.
Jim Powell
#54. He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.
Shirley Maclaine
#55. There are no new releases that I'd want to see, but they've got the most recent Star Trek movie," Carter said, flipping through the channels...
"We can watch it for the small price of our unborn child.
Kristin Miller
#57. If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
Oliver North
#58. Why are they so sad?" I asked.
"Well, they're dead," Carter speculated.
Rick Riordan
#59. Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen. - Carter to Georgina
Richelle Mead
#60. I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.
Tony Kaye
#61. Mr. Carter cleared his throat. "Soy sauce." He deadpanned. "Really, Sera?
Flora Roberts
#62. I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.
Joe Biden
#63. Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. "You knocked him stupid," he bellowed.
"No," Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. "He was already stupid. I knocked him out.
Julie Garwood
#64. There's nothing here," Carter said.
"What do you want?" I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.
Rick Riordan
#65. I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
Constance Baker Motley
#66. Frankie and Carter Thibodeau would revert to what they'd been before: smalltown losers with little or no jingle in their pockets.
Stephen King
#67. Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.
Earl Sweatshirt
#68. Jack's voice was harsh. "Carter, head out and do a recce will you?
Suzanne Wood
#69. Hold it," Annabeth said. "I prefer my boyfriend with an un-melted brain. What exactly are we talking about here?" Carter
Rick Riordan
#70. I doubted there was any part of Charleston she could show Carter that he didn't know about. Carter had been around to watch cities like Babylon and Troy rise and fall. For all I knew, he'd personally helped take down Sodom and Gomorrah.
Richelle Mead
#71. President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter.
Bobby Jindal
#72. We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
John F. Kerry
#73. Since when do we even play games?"
"Since when don't we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between."
I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. "Hello, Carter.
Richelle Mead
#74. Ethan seemed to revel in Carter's most hated tics. He'd set them to music. The light bounce of notes, starts and stops, of Ethan's song, it was the music of Carter's Tourette's, and Ethan had made it beautiful. He'd made Carter feel beautiful for having them.
Ryan Loveless
#75. When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.
Arianna Huffington
#76. My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]
Rick Riordan
#77. Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
Alexander Haig
#78. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.
Chris Matthews
#79. Live Life. Fight for life. Every day is a gift. Don't take it for granted.
In memory of Carter Desmond McFillin.
Tony Curl
#80. President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
Andrew Young
#81. Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment.
"I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will - "
"Die?" Carter suggested.
Rick Riordan
#82. Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.
Annie Potts
#83. New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.
Jimmy Fallon
#84. It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
Dan Quayle
#85. When the Mets were on their run in the 1980s, Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody. It was easy to joke about that. The best hug of all was with Jesse Orosco at the end of the 1986 World Series.
George Vecsey
#86. Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.
Richelle Mead
#87. So, Carter, if you need to talk about anything, you know, about being gay. If there are things that you don't understand or things that confuse you, you can ask me. Anything. You can ask me anything."
Carter studied him for a moment and asked. "Who's your cell provider?
Marshall Thornton
#88. Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.
Eliot Spitzer
#89. We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!
Rick Perry
#90. I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
Dom DeLuise
#91. I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.
Billy Carter
#92. Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke
#93. I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
Taylor Kitsch
#94. I'm too sexy for a grocery store. John Carter Quinn
Leigh James
#95. Teddy Roosevelt ... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Gerald R. Ford
#96. The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.
Chris Matthews
#97. A critic named John Carter was so exercised by Wyatt's predilection for ripping out ancient interiors that he dubbed him "the Destroyer" and devoted 212 essays in the Gentleman's Magazine - essentially his whole career - to attacking Wyatt's style and character. At
Bill Bryson
#98. In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.
George Vecsey
#99. Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.
Rick Riordan
#100. One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.
Thomas Sowell
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