Virginia Quotes · Page 4

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far…

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Anonymous

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in…

— Hayley Atwell

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

— Rebecca West

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a…

— Ice T

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

— John Sergeant Wise

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

The COVID-19 crisis has presented disproportionate risks to Central Virginia's seniors, and it has created extremely stressful situations for their families.

— Abigail Spanberger

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had…

— Willard Sterne Randall

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 mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being…

— Dave Grohl

I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs…

— George Raveling

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Martha Stewart

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

— John Ringo

So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to…

— Chris Cannon

That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of…

— George Mason

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why…

— Tim Kaine

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always…

— Kevin Brockmeier

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

— Cara Delevingne

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

— Jim Justice

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the…

— David Selby

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

— Beth Behrs

Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me…

— Robert Giroux