Virginia Quotes

Virginia Quote of the day

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

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 and worship.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

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

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

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

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

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

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 kind of musical emergency.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

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 to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

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

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

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

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

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

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.