Quotes About Virginia

The drinks were so perfect, so visually artistic. Virginia could honestly believe she would find her salvation in one.

As Oliver Ellsworth, the third chief justice of the United States, declared, "As population increases, poor labourers will be so plenty as to render slaves useless. Slavery in time will not be a speck in our country."42 The leaders simply did not count on the remarkable demographic capacity of the slave states themselves, especially Virginia, to produce slaves for the expanding areas of the Deep South and the Southwest.

There will never be rebellion here. In Richmond and Williamsburg there has been talk. Jefferson isn't reliable and Patrick Henry is a born troublemaker of no substance whatever. No, sir, Virginia stands fast with the king.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

Anyone who studies the history of American commerce or warfare should be interested in Burning Springs, nicknamed Oiltown. This was the site of the first oil well in West Virginia, drilled in 1860, just one year after the nation's first well was opened in Pennsylvania.

I took half a bottle of wine and entire bar of dark chocolate up to my room and proceeded to self-medicate the hell out of myself. Don't scoff until you've tried it.

Budgie's had a nice lunchtime crowd, but we found a table

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...

I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear to me; and the moon rising; and the silver sea.

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.

Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...

Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!

Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh. She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making was a game, she thought, for if she had said half what he said, she would have blown her brains out by now.

She did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations.

It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need.

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated.

Unhappiness is everywhere; just beyond the door; or stupidity, which is worse

Me produce un gran placer estar sola […] elimino el dolor que me produce la gente. Quizás sea el placer más fuerte que conozco.