Best Virginia Quotations
240 Virginia quotes by 180 unique authors
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I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so…
— Unknown Author
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There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555…
— Louis Farrakhan
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Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track…
— Byron York
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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate…
— Bill Jenkins
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like…
— Lalla Ward
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign…
— John Sergeant Wise
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In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up…
— Judy Bonds
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In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings…
— Margot Livesey
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in…
— Connie Britton
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to…
— Sam Trammell
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I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.
— Pharrell Williams
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the…
— Ezra Stiles
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The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the…
— James Madison
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Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in…
— Joe Manchin
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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my…
— John Woolman
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My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
— Debra Wilson
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What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You…
— Jayson Werth
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We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who…
— Mel White
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Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same.…
— Michael Shaara
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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,…
— Martina Navratilova
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[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)
— John Ringo
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Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed…
— William H. Seward
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I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized…
— John Cage
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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 American Muslim, an…
— Amy Waldman
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