Quotes About Virginia

he set out for Berkeley County, Virginia, to tell his people of the magnificent country he had discovered.

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

After 1619—when Great Britain entered into the slave trade—some ten million African slaves were shipped to North America and South America, all the way down to Brazil. "In Virginia, during the 1680s, there were still only 3,000 slaves in a population of 70,000, but by 1756 they numbered over 100,000, about 40 percent of the population," wrote historian James Ferguson.

Widely hailed as the most popular director of Central Intelligence since Allen Dulles, Bush had enormous support within the Agency. As the campaign got under way, Reagan-Bush posters appeared all over CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, many cut in the middle with only the right side, the Bush side, on display.

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The federal government will have become their enemy..." Thomas echoed in a disbelieving voice. "I fear there is no turning back from the

You cannot find comfort in ducks. Stoop to look into those beady brown eyes, and they will tell you nothing. - The Bridge, St. James's Park

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Are there bears in Western Virginia? she whispered. Cut it out, Caroline, said Eddie. But Beth gave a little gasp. Are there? If there are bears in West Virginia, they're way up in the mountains, Eddie said. Caroline knew that Eddie didn't know what she was talking about any more than Beth knew about bears, but she didn't ask any other questions because she didn't really want to know the answers.

I meant with my cook at Mount Josiah, in Virginia. His name is Manoke.

At the age of ten, on Armistice Day, Alex trekked miles from his home in Washington, D.C., to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to attend a ceremony at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. Who was the man being honored? What religion? What race? No one knew. All anybody knew was that he was an American hero. And that was, it seemed, how it should be. This was true brotherhood.

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

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.

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.

No matter which administration is in power, and no matter which President is delivering the State of the Union, I will continue to pursue smart and pragmatic policies that put the people of Central Virginia first.

The funding of rural roads is imperative if we want to continue to grow our economy and improve the overall health of our vast, rural regions in the commonwealth. As a native of the Eastern Shore, I know that a single trip down U.S. Route 13 and across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Tunnel can show us how important infrastructure is to rural Virginia.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I survived high school in Virginia, so the internet is no match.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.