Virginia Quotes · Page 5

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

— Abraham Lincoln

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

— Isabel Scott Rorick

Together we will take concrete steps to help Virginia combat antisemitism.

— Glenn Youngkin

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

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

— Lee Majors

Amazon continues to demonstrate confidence in Virginia by expanding and reinvesting in our Commonwealth.

— Ralph Northam

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

— Oliver Luck

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she…

— Michael Palin

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the…

— Harry Mathews

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt…

— Jennifer Garner

Tourism is a major economic driver for the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing and creating good jobs and injecting critical dollars back into…

— Glenn Youngkin

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in…

— Joe Manchin

Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by…

— Richelle Mead

Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and…

— Matthea Harvey

Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his…

— Henry Louis Gates

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us.…

— David Lowery

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or…

— Ralph Stanley

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,…

— Christopher Dodd

My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by…

— Carolee Schneemann

“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of…

— Jane Goldman

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

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

— Erica Jong

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

— May Sarton

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

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 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

Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this…

— Arenda L. Wright Allen

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones…

— John Locke

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

— Julian Bond

My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia.

— Mike D'Antoni

Tim Kaine can't point to a single accomplishment in the United States Senate for Virginia or Virginians.

— Corey Stewart

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

— Francis Pharcellus Church

The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

— Robert Duvall

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

— Tina Fey