Chapel Hill Quotes:

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

- William Hooper

source: William Hooper (1859). “Fifty Years Since: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni of the University of North Carolina, on the 7th of June, 1859, (being the Day Before the Annual Commencement.)”, p.5

topic: Lying, Years, Two, Chapel, Chapel Hill

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Loyalty, Wall, Memories, Stone Walls, Chapel Hill

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

- Russell Banks

topic: War, Rights, Political, John Brown, Chapel

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

- John Podesta

topic: Thinking, Issues, Guy, Chapel, Chapel Hill

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

- Jesse Helms

topic: Zoos, Hills, Fence, Chapel Hill

Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Christian, Rights, Cities, Aurora, Chapel Hill

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Illinois, Remember, Hills, Chapel Hill

In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place.

- Frank Porter Graham

topic: Beautiful, Air, Doors, Chapel, Chapel Hill

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

- Andy Griffith

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Home, Television, Proud, Chapel Hill