Virginia Quotes · Page 8

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

— Brooks Robinson

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Beth Behrs

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

— Douglas MacArthur

Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

— Ron Paul

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

— Jason Mraz

If Pitt is on the short list, there's no reason that West Virginia shouldn't be on the Big 12 short list.

— Oliver Luck

A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.

— Kali Uchis

I grew up up and down the East Coast mostly. I went to high school in Reston, Virginia.

— Mikie Sherrill

GO Virginia is a critical tool for spurring innovation and inspiring regional collaboration for economic growth in the private, public and nonprofit…

— Glenn Youngkin

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure…

— Sam Trammell

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

— Jay Leno

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing:…

— Anne Lamott

I'd like to welcome everyone, everywhere to come to West Virginia and experience all the freedom and beauty our state has to…

— Jim Justice

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

— Kiefer Sutherland

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and…

— Ben Stein

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing…

— Anonymous

“And just now I pick up the blessed diary of Virginia Woolf which I bought with a battery of her novels Saturday…

— Sylvia Plath

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties…

— John Marshall

When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with…

— Corey Stewart

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other…

— Carl L. Becker

She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it…

— Rob Lowe

I went to The Miller School of Albemarle, just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. As a kid, I really loved the movie 'Toy…

— Scott Haze

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

If President Trump and his administration succeed, West Virginia will succeed.

— Jim Justice

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

— George Rogers Clark

I love what Virginia Madsen does, and I love Virginia Madsen.

— Nia DaCosta

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

— Ian Mcewan

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

— Jubal Early

Virginia is a place that's so boring, you find friends and do cool things.

— Masego

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

— Cara Delevingne

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Jerry Falwell

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

— Morgan Griffith

What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the…

— William M. Kelso

“God is like that, Virginia concluded. He's always on duty. Moving from one need to another. Always there- for everyone. He'll get…

— Janette Oke

“The only thing here was a long gray ribbon of road, stretched like tape stuck by a toddler onto a rolling carpet…

— Beth Harbison

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled…

— Daniel H. Hill

I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea…

— Eileen Atkins

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but…

— Ezra Stiles

I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

— Ray Dandridge