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Quotes About Virginia

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
~ Amity Gaige
Virginia Beach is just such a melting pot for so many different things, and they just have so many influences. I would always say that the area definitely influences Play Cloths. The area itself just has so many influences, whether it be fashion, music, everything.
~ Pusha T
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
~ Tom Robbins
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
~ Billy Campbell
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
~ Randall Munroe
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
I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
~ Ray Dandridge
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
~ Cara Delevingne
As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
~ Jesse L. Martin
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
~ Tamara Tunie
When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.
~ Stephen Furst
The first mention of a 'ranger' is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a near-successful effort to drive the British out of what is now Virginia.
~ Greg Grandin
If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.
~ Allen Iverson
I will be the first to admit that I've made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia's disclosure requirements.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
I'm the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn't even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there's never been - again, in my lifetime in Virginia - a statewide elected official who's been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is - earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
~ Margot Lee Shetterly
My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.
~ Connie Britton
When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it.' You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history.
~ Corey Stewart
Trump will be America's law and order president, and I look forward to working with him as the law and order governor of Virginia.
~ Corey Stewart
Some colleges and universities in Virginia have chosen to ban concealed carry, and we believe that those universities have created more dangerous environments for their students, faculty, and staff.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.
~ Matthew Ramsey