Top 22 Quotes About Richmond Virginia
#1. Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.
Ken Rosenthal
#2. All we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden
#3. 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
#4. There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].
Dolly Parton
#5. 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
#6. Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order - these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.
Howard Bloom
#7. And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong
Marvin Gaye
#8. I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
Terry Zwigoff
#9. Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
James Mark Baldwin
#10. It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Knute Nelson
#11. I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. 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.
Billy Campbell
#13. 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
#14. The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
Christopher Nolan
#15. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
Corey Reynolds
#16. Josh: I didn't know ...
Nicholas: No reason why you should have - except that your ignorance could have gotten you killed ... or worse.
Michael Scott
#17. Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.
Ed Lynskey
#18. There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them
Leo Booth
#19. Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate
Patricia Cornwell
#21. The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE.Yet,we waste it in the pursuit of meaningless things that will never belong to us.
R.v.m.
#22. 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