Burgesses Of Virginia Quotes

#1. When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters.

Tom Standage

#2. Do I look like someone who would make a duck face or do a fish gape?

Melissa McClone

#3. Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.

Ethan Zohn

#4. I never shut up'
Yes, you do'
Not much'
I could make you shut up'
Oh, yeah? ... How?

Maureen Johnson

#5. Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Emily Giffin

#6. Cultural creation ... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Will Durant

#7. Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

A.W. Tozer

#8. If you've passion- the desire to succeed at all cost, there won't be any lack or limitation that could stop you. Passion wipes out excuses.

Assegid Habtewold

#9. If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

Audrey Hepburn

#10. She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#11. Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

James Baldwin

#12. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

#13. Make love, not beds.

Torquato Neto

#14. The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

Sherwood Anderson

#15. I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Harrison Birtwistle

#16. Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ...

Matthew Arnold

#17. How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in populist politics? The question can lead us again to the paradox which has underlain our story, the union of freedom and slavery in Virginia and America.

Edmund S. Morgan