Washington dc Quote by Charles McCarry

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

“…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it…

— Michelle Au

“And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put…

— Mark Helprin

“Richmond lost his Virginia when he was 1776.”

— Jarod Kintz

“west. He liked the mild climate, the Sierras making it something like Colorado with a seashore. It took him several years to overcome the…

— Gregory Benford

“I have never yet gotten entirely over the feeling that a Yankee, on account of his peculiar teachings and bringing-up, is far inferior to…

— George Benjamin West

“We always just miss New York. I watched it with this neighborhood. When I moved here everyone was mourning SoHo of the seventies, Tribeca…

— Stephanie Danler

“I came to absorb the history of the Virginia Tidewater—that primordial American demesne where the land was sucked dry by tobacco, laid waste and…

— William Styron

“Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”

— Matthew Pearl

“His actions had saved three US cities from annihilation but only a few very high-ranking people knew it. Fairfax was just pleased he could…

— Matthew Reilly

“Welcome to West Virginia, the land of lost models.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout