Virginia Quotes · Page 5

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a…

— Mickie James

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

— Alison Bechdel

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

— DeVon Franklin

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

— Mark Warner

Central Virginia students deserve access to the best educational and job training opportunities possible.

— Abigail Spanberger

Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.

— Ken Cuccinelli

“West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

My five years at Virginia truly prepared me for the NBA and for life after the NBA.

— Malcolm Brogdon

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

— Tim Kaine

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my…

— Azita Ghanizada

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

— Glenn Youngkin

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and…

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers.…

— Jesse L. Martin

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]…

— Thomas Jefferson

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the…

— Rita Mae Brown

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders…

— Bryan Stevenson

My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom…

— Paul Tudor Jones

The Commonwealth's own Ryan Zimmerman is a baseball legend and trailblazer. I am thrilled to issue a proclamation designating Ryan Zimmerman Day…

— Glenn Youngkin

“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...]…

— Vita Sackville-West

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in…

— Denny Hamlin

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

There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon…

— Arthur Ashe

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

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

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

— Bill Bryson

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

“When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me—that a person may be ultrasensitive and not…

— May Sarton

I grew up in what I would consider a very small town - like 800 people - in West Virginia.

— Cynthia Germanotta

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

— Brooks Robinson

I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.

— Casey Wilson

From day one, our goal has been to make Virginia the best place to live, work, and raise a family.

— Glenn Youngkin

Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.

— Kaya Scodelario

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

— Mikie Sherrill

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