Virginia Quotes · Page 8

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

— John Smit

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

— Edward Albee

“The dilemma of choosing our identity is an ongoing progress that forces us…to decide consciously or unconsciously the direction in which we…

— Lois Benjamin

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling…

— Thomas Jefferson

Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...…

— Michael Cunningham

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if…

— Alan Alda

Distance makes everything beautiful.

— Michael Scott

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

— Lee Majors

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an…

— Amy Waldman

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

— Andrea Bocelli

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is…

— James Madison

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big…

— Randy Moss

The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector…

— Thomas Jefferson

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late…

— Jeff Goodell

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company…

— Joe Manchin

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor.…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

— Oliver Luck

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my…

— Robert Duvall

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

We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do…

— Irvine Welsh

[Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion…

— Donald Trump

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

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

— Cy Twombly

Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the…

— John Engler

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control]…

— Marion Barry