Virginia Quotes - Page 4

• It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

  Jeff Goodell

  America, Too Late, Coal

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• So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Winning, People, Catholic

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Games, Issues, House

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Denny Hamlin from Sep 08, 2015

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Talking

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Believe, High Heels

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• If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, College, Kentucky

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• I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, America, Cost

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.73, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reality, Creating, Views

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

  Connie Britton

  Country, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  Sam Trammell

  Beautiful, Running, Rivers

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• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  Mamie Gummer

  Two, Directors, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

  John Ringo

  Politics, Democrat, Collections

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

  Debra Wilson

  Music, New York, School

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• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  John Woolman

  Friends, Discipline, Mind

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.15

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• Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the 'Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,' it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

  Ezra Stiles

  West Indies, South Carolina, Loser

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• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Boys, Littles, Pool

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as prominent in our lives as the Memorial itself in the skyline of the Federal City. Wherever we are, in Alexandria, Virginia, the District of Columbia of should be in our moral horizon, beckoning us to greater achievements as citizens and Masons.

  Henry Clausen

  Men, Cities, Memorial

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• I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

  Jason Mraz

  Four Seasons, Four, Seasons

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• When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Saws, Firsts

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• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  Ian Mcewan

  Years, Risk, Pounds

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• 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.

  Ice T

  Brother, Father, Blue

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• I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.

  Graham Taylor

  School, Numbers, Kentucky

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