Virginia Quotes

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

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

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

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.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

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

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 of Vir

Just in case you ever foolishly forget

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

I need not flatter any man

History is too much about wars

If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

We hunger for quiet times

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.

Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen

The eyes of others our prisons