Virginia Quotes

240 quotes by 185 authors

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.… — Billy Campbell
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. — Stephen Ambrose
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University… — Thomas Jefferson
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of… — Thomas Jefferson
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at… — Patricia Cornwell
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to… — Alice Walker
I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our… — George Raveling
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. — Mark Ruffalo
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit… — Dinesh D'Souza
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation. — Marion Barry
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family… — David Selby
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any… — Mark Twain
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
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. — Jubal Early
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient… — Thomas Jefferson

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