Virginia Quotes · Page 4

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

— Lee Majors

Our mission remains clear, continue making Virginia the best place to live, work and raise a family.

— Glenn Youngkin

I've been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

— Will Grier

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

— Jeannette Walls

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

— George Rogers Clark

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

— Julia Glass

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

— Billy Campbell

My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and…

— Mel White

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked…

— Danny McBride

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big…

— Randy Moss

“Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a…

— David Markson

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my…

— Robert Duvall

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have…

— Joe Manchin

“One county in Virginia—Prince Edward County—closed its entire school system for five years, from 1959 to 1964, rather than integrate.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered…

— Noam Chomsky

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends…

— Argus Hamilton

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole…

— Lee Smith

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as…

— Henry Clausen

Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there.…

— Monty Williams

Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the…

— Noel Coward

In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day…

— Judy Bonds

“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were…

— Ian Gregor

Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls…

— Erica Jong

Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.…

— May Sarton

There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving…

— Anthony W. Ivins

“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion…

— Eduardo Galeano

There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Unfortunately, I kind of split between Virginia and living in an airplane. I travel a lot.

— Erik Prince

There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech.

— Frank Beamer

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

— Cass Elliot

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

— Oliver Luck

“You're cold, Virginia. How have you let yourself become so cold?”

— Kathryn Wesley

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

— Bob McDonnell

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

— Sergio Leone

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

— Thomas Jefferson