Virginia Quotes · Page 4

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

— Schuyler Fisk

Virginia's public schools have long enjoyed a reputation for academic excellence.

— Glenn Youngkin

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Glenn Youngkin

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

— Jim Justice

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

— Tina Fey

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

— Robert Duvall

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

— Julian Bond

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

— Glenn Youngkin

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

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

— George Mason

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

Virginia's tourism industry has been unrelenting in its recovery efforts, developing innovative and best-in-class strategies to bolster the economy.

— Glenn Youngkin

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and…

— Robert Ballard

I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish…

— Tim Kaine

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

— Matthea Harvey

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

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 spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120…

— Stephen Colbert

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out…

— Michael Cunningham

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and…

— Charles Dickens

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

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

— Erica Jong

But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is…

— John Brown Baldwin

“From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first…

— Bill Bryson

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

“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded…

— Jane Goldman

“By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr…

— Jane Goldman

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

— Ralph Northam

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

— Martha Stewart

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

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

— Francis Pharcellus Church

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

— Michael Scott

Growing up in the Virginia Beach area, the Orioles were the team.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

— Stephen Ambrose