Top 644 Virginia Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.
All I want is greatness for West Virginia, and I'll work with anyone who is ready to help me turn this state around.
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.
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.
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.
When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.
It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.
The 'Post' seems to think my strong stance on illegal alien criminals will be a liability in my run for governor of Virginia.
If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.
The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.
One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?
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.
For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.
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.
I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.
Central Virginia students deserve access to the best educational and job training opportunities possible.
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!
We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has posed significant and often disproportionate risks to Central Virginia seniors and their families.
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.
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.
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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.
The COVID-19 crisis has presented disproportionate risks to Central Virginia's seniors, and it has created extremely stressful situations for their families.
When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.
Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.
On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.
I grew up in Virginia, where Hallmark Channel is king. So I'm really excited to join the holiday family.
I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.
I'd like to welcome everyone, everywhere to come to West Virginia and experience all the freedom and beauty our state has to offer.
I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.
In Virginia, we will continue to lift up all who identify as women as we strive for a more equitable future.
I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
I'm working as hard as I can for West Virginia and its people to continue to provide the coal that keeps the lights on in our country.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.