Top 1200 West Virginia Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

Oh, here he comes now, the May West of pro-wrestling.

I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.

I like Kanye West... he makes good music.

Kanye West does not represent all black people.

Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

When you receive national recognition for leading the nation's toughest crackdown on illegal immigration and serving as Donald Trump's Virginia State Chairman, you get used to being falsely labeled as racist and xenophobic by the mainstream media, especially by 'The Washington Post''s editorial board, which has labeled me as such things for years.

As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But for me, I don't think I could write a plot without sex happening somewhere.

I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.

A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.'

There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States. The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.

I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

I am always committed to West Indies cricket.

Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Kanye [West] is the hardest person to buy something for.

In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.

Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into the mire. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, was forced to apologise when his proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month failed to make any reference to slavery.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

We need to stop imitating the West and looking there for inspiration.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us. Their bearing was magnificent. They came forward with a rush, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on!'

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

I definitely am keen on doing films in the West.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.