Virginia Quotes - Page 10

• There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to raise fewer children or impel married opposite-sex couples to raise more children. The Virginia Marriage Laws therefore do not further Virginia's interest in channeling children into optimal families, even if we were to accept the dubious proposition that same-sex couples are less capable parents.

  Henry Franklin Floyd

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• 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.

  Harry Mathews

  Norfolk, Said

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• Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.

  Walter Smith

  Needs, Problem, Maryland

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• Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.

  Carl L. Becker

  Class, Southern, Aristocracy

  "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.

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• Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.

  Tara Parker-Pope

  Exercise, Next, Students

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• 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.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Vegetables, Clothes

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• We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.

  Irvine Welsh

  Opportunity, Years, Cake

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Farmers, Farms

  "Barbara Kingsolver Sets a Fire". Interview With Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Bipolar

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• As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.

  James A. Haught

  Hate, Editors, People

  James A. Haught (1995). “Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the '90s”

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• I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

  Jerry Falwell

  Grew Up, Grew, South

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• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Years, People, Cinema

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

  Robert Duvall

  Home, Hermits, My Own

  "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

  Adam Selzer

  Rights, Reform, Bills

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• I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, San Francisco, Feelings

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• Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

  Ally Carter

  War, Research, Biographies

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

  George C. Wallace

  Bridges, White, Fleeing

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• I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'

  Joe Manchin

  Goal, Campaigns, Able

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• There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ruins, Restaurants, Critics

  Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Parks (2013). “Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition”, p.180, Wildside Press LLC

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• I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.

  Breece D'J Pancake

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Richelle Mead

  Alchemist, Together, West

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.196, Penguin

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• 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.

  Joe Manchin

  Priorities, President, Looks

  "YIKES: A Democratic Senator Says He Might Not Vote For Obama" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2012.

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

  Joe Manchin

  Wife, Income, West

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• Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Rich, Planters

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