Virginia Quotes · Page 8

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

— Ralph Northam

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

— Julian Bond

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

— Robert Duvall

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

— Tina Fey

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

— Jim Justice

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

— Richard Ojeda

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

— John Brown

It's the people who sent us all to Richmond who make this Virginia we love so great.

— Glenn Youngkin

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have…

— Joe Manchin

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been reminded how important Virginia's farms are to getting food into our stores and onto our…

— Ralph Northam

I grew up, went to the Virginia Military Institute and then medical school, married my wife Pam, served in the United States…

— Ralph Northam

It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

— Harry Carpenter

“One county in Virginia—Prince Edward County—closed its entire school system for five years, from 1959 to 1964, rather than integrate.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

— Joe Manchin

In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both…

— Martin O'Malley

“Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended…

— Benjamin Percy

Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a…

— Gwendoline Christie

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part…

— Adam Selzer

I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against…

— John Brown Baldwin

“The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a…

— Kamila Shamsie

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality…

— George Washington

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

— Robert Giroux

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any…

— Dave Grohl

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

— Bonnie Huie

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

— John Smit

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

— Jim Justice

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

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— George C. Wallace

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

— Joe Manchin

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in…

— John Raese

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like…

— Sam Trammell

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

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the…

— Harry Mathews

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 love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she…

— Michael Palin

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

— Oliver Luck