Virginia Quotes - Page 13

• I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

  David Selby

  Travel, Past, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Generosity, Santa

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Ku Klux Klan

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.'

  Ted Olson

  Military, Rights, People

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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• 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 Virginia.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Tombstone, Father

  Epitaph (1826) on Jefferson's gravestone at his home, Monticello, at Charlottesville, Va.

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• On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Aunt, Comforting

  "Coming to a Freezer Near You: Pickle Pops" by Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Squares, Goal

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.288, Univ of California Press

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• We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Men, Dancing

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

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• In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

  Joe Manchin

  Morning, People, West

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2010.

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• I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Beautiful, Beach, Growing Up

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• Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

  E. M. Forster

  Light, Missing, Darkness

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