Virginia Quotes · Page 5

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

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

— Vidya Vox

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 think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

— Robert Hurt

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

— Joe Manchin

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

— Tim Kaine

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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 knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money… In fact, these…

— Henry David Thoreau

Virginia can become competitive again by advancing common-sense solutions to get our jobs machine cranked up again.

— Glenn Youngkin

Over my dead body when I'm governor of Virginia are we ever going to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee…

— Corey Stewart

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

— Edith Sitwell

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record.…

— Fred Thompson

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

I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family…

— Ella Baker

I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before…

— Robert Byrd

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Jane Goldman

Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and…

— Byron York

“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the…

— Ian Gregor

While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works…

— Jane Goldman

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are…

— Michael Shaara

Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the…

— Michael Scott

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

— George C. Wallace

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

— Bob McDonnell

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Jim Justice

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

— John Smit

“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.”

— Bonnie Huie

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

— John Brown

The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.

— Richard Ojeda