Virginia Quotes

• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Band, Craziness, Swept Away

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Bisexual, Steps, Said

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.33, Bantam

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• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blow, Men, Yesterday

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

  Jubal Early

  Military, War, Army

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

  Robert Hurt

  Firsts, Stranger, Good Things

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• 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.

  Joe Manchin

  Moving, People, West

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• My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication.

  Thomas Jones

  Believe, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Toasters, Stakes

  Source: movieweb.com

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

  Tex Ritter

  Mother, Father, Texas

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• Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.

  H. J Eckenrode

  Past, Men, Atheism

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• 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.

  Fred Thompson

  Gun, Criminals, News

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Should Have, Light

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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

  DeVon Franklin

  Growing Up, Church, Culture

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

  Alexander Spotswood

  Husband, Taken, Long

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• Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society - and bring factories, offices and economies to a screeching halt in states that are 80-98% dependent on coal: Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

  Paul Driessen

  Ohio, Utah, Wyoming

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• 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.

  William H. Seward

  Ocean, United States, Constitution

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Enemy

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• 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.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Kentucky, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Government, Years, Patriotism

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.68, Anza Publishing

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Vision

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  New York, Mean, Simple

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• When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Parent, Climate, Birth

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.126, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  George Pickett

  War, Men, Today

  Richard F. Selcer, George E. Pickett (1995). “"Faithfully and forever your soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA”

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

  Anthony Kennedy

  Crime, Crosses

  "High court takes up Virginia cross-burning case" by William Mears, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2002.

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