Virginia Quotes - Page 4

• It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

  Harry Carpenter

  Tennis, Wade, Pressure

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• I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mean, Thinking, Islands

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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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• I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

  Tina Fey

  Philadelphia, Grew Up, University

  Interview with Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. March 12, 2013.

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• When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

  Steve Kazee

  Thinking, Play, Silence

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• I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

  Julian Bond

  American Universities, Teach, University

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• I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

  Edward Abbey

  New York, Heart, Europe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  America, Independence, United States

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• My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Divorce, Successful, Emotional

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• For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Years, Catholic

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

  Brooks Robinson

  Reason, Disappear, Colony

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

  Scott Mandia

  Mistake, Roots, Errors

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• Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Fighting, Reality

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• Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the Competitiveness Caucus comes as great news to the nation's manufacturers. We support every item on this agenda and will work with Senator Allen and others to make it a reality. The time has come for Congress to recognize the vital role manufacturing plays in American life and do what it can to strengthen our ability to compete in the global marketplace.

  John Engler

  Reality, Play, Issues

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• What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia.

  William M. Kelso

  Attitude, Reality, Patterns

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• Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

  Rebecca West

  Survival, This Generation, Generations

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• I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doctors, Speak, Franklin

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• Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech.

  Frank Beamer

  Week, Virginia Tech

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• I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government under which we live; a complaint made by the whole South, and that is on the subject of African slavery.

  John Brown Baldwin

  War, Government, Slavery

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• But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?

  John Brown Baldwin

  War, People, Feelings

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• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Writing, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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• If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?

  Pat Buchanan

  Years, People, Groups

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• Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together.

  William Bradford

  Christian, Country, Kings

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.76, Rutgers University Press

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