Top 1200 West Virginia Quotes & Sayings

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

I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

The Road to Prosperity program is the centerpiece of my vision for West Virginia's economic recovery.

The sun doesn't always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains poor.

I've been surrounded by good people at West Virginia that have really helped me.

WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.

One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

When I was a West Virginia lad of 17, I met a Massachusetts lad of 42 by the name of John F. Kennedy. At the time, I was in a bright orange suit that I had just purchased to wear to the 1960 National Science Fair, where I hoped my home-built rockets would win a medal. Kennedy was in West Virginia trying to win the state's presidential primary.

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.

Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.

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

In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.

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.

There are so many great things happening in West Virginia, and I will continue to work every day to move our state forward.

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

I've been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

As a lifelong sportsman, I am proud to work with our state and federal partners to make elk restoration in West Virginia a success story.

When President Kennedy come to West Virginia, he spoke about West Virginia and the people that gave the people here pride. And my family, my father remembers when President Kennedy was in Logan County and at places like the smokehouse, standing on chairs, talking to people.

I was like, 18 and it was in West Virginia because I was allowed to get into the clubs in West Virginia, not Pennsylvania where I was growing up. And we went in and there was a drag queen on stage and she was huge and beautiful, but she was lip syncing to a song. I was legitimately stunned.

Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.

I miss West Virginia very much.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

West Virginia built this nation... we deserve respect.

My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

We simply must stand with the Boy Scouts and give them the support they need to make a difference in communities across West Virginia.

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

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

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've farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia.

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'

Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together.” “No,” I said. “No?” “We’re, uh, not in West Virginia.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Families in Logan, West Virginia, were going through the same struggles as families in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Houston. This was not a West Virginia problem. This is an American problem, and it has to change.

My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.

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

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

I have always said that West Virginia is one of the world's best-kept secrets, and I truly mean it.

It's God's plan, and I'm really excited to be a part of this new opportunity with West Virginia.

[Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion dollars. He was not popular in Virginia.

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've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.

Having the President of the United States in West Virginia is a tremendous honor.

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.