Top 100 Quotes About Richmond
#1. My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#2. The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today - Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia - even though the part that the very similar accidents of geology and river behavior played in their origins may have been long forgotten.
Simon Winchester
#3. Broad-streeted Richmond ... The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#4. At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans.
ASAP Rocky
#5. There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.
Tom Robbins
#6. 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
#7. Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
Bobby Scott
#8. A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
William Cullen Bryant
#9. 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
#10. Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove
#11. I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small ... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
Terry McAuliffe
#12. She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond's quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock.
Philip Kerr
#13. His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of innocents, when other men, such as Harry Richmond, took advantage of being suddenly unfettered by conventional standards to do whatever the darkest side of human nature desired.
Tom Bensing
#14. Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
John Sergeant Wise
#15. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.
Clint Johnson
#16. Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
Kevin Powers
#17. Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey
#18. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#19. In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#20. I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
Elliott Yamin
#21. 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
#22. We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Philip Kearny
#23. After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.
Sterling Marlin
#24. One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.
Anthea Turner
#25. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
Frank O'Hara
#26. The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
Douglas Brinkley
#27. I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
Claire Tomalin
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
Corey Reynolds
#31. Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
John Shelton Reed
#32. SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches - and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.
Tom Robbins
#33. The dead don't stay dead in this town!
Haunted Richmond II-Pamela K. Kinney
Pamela K. Kinney
#34. I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions ... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.
Ryan Stiles
#35. I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
Jennifer Wyatt
#36. 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
#37. Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#38. HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND:
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
#39. At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
Karen Abbott
#40. Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee.
Ben Aaronovitch
#41. 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
#42. I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.
Teresa R. Funke
#43. We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.
Denny Hamlin
#44. find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what?
Will Hodgkinson
#45. My mother was a good Catholic
she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.
Sue Monk Kidd
#46. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.
Ed Lynskey
#47. 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
#48. Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.
Michelle Richmond
#49. You can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.
Fred Richmond
#50. Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.
Blair Richmond
#51. I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.
Cedric Richmond
#53. There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.
Richmond Akhigbe
#54. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.
Michelle Richmond
#55. Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
Cedric Richmond
#56. I rarely read newspapers. There's more truth in a decent novel.
T.R. Richmond
#57. My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.
Tequan Richmond
#58. It had been a month before then that I'd sat on the bathroom floor and now it was back, the feeling that I was watching life through a thick pane of glass and that, whatever was out there, I wasn't designed for it.
T.R. Richmond
#59. The diversity lottery program is a proven method of offering a path to legal permanent status for residents of African nations and other underrepresented regions seeking a better life here in the United States.
Cedric Richmond
#60. God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not.
Catherine Richmond
#61. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.
Richmond Akhigbe
#62. If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.
Grace S. Richmond
#63. Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.
Tequan Richmond
#64. You have no idea how screwed up I am."
"That's not true. I know. I just don't care.
Shaina Richmond
#65. Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.
Fred Richmond
#66. Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.
Michelle Richmond
#67. I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.
Cedric Richmond
#68. His silhouette blocked the starlight. She turned her head and a sticky kiss landed below her ear. She tried to relax, but her arms wouldn't move from their defensive position on his shirtfront. His next kiss grazed her cheek. "Jesse." "You remembered my name.
Catherine Richmond
#69. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
Michelle Richmond
#71. Actual physical repose isn't often the best cure for weariness: it's change of thought and occupation, particularly if the open air is a part of the cure. I've forgotten I have a care in the world.
Grace S. Richmond
#72. Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.
Cedric Richmond
#73. Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.
pg.480
Hilary Mantel
#74. With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.
Michelle Richmond
#75. I started home school around sixth grade, but I'd only done a couple of national commercials. I remember I had this Spalding commercial with Paul Pierce from the Celtics, and I used to go to school, and people made fun of it. It wasn't even cool to be an actor; you got made fun of.
Tequan Richmond
#76. I was torn. The evil, horny side of me wanted to know more. The good side wanted to feel sympathy and pretend he'd never heard it. I think 'evil horny' is gonna win. - Tyler Campbell (main character)
Shaina Richmond
#77. It was hardly a Eureka moment, although possibly as close to one as I was going to get.
T.R. Richmond
#78. America draws tremendous strength from its diversity, which prompts the question, as Congress contemplates comprehensive immigration reform, why are some lawmakers aiming to curb diversity instead of promoting it?
Cedric Richmond
#79. I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes.
Cedric Richmond
#80. The point of a fairy tale is never in the details. The point is that it's easy to remember, to carry, to tell. We'll continue telling until the stones fall down, and then we'll rebuild and start again.
Miranda Richmond Mouillot
#82. When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.
Richmond Akhigbe
#83. I already have a son
One is enough?
There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed one the fatherhood front didn't I? Some errors don't bear repeating.
Michelle Richmond
#84. Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.
Fred Richmond
#85. Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between.
Michelle Richmond
#86. Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.
Richmond Akhigbe
#87. Life's all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.
Richmond Akhigbe
#88. If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
Cedric Richmond
#89. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.
Cedric Richmond
#90. To be a writer you have to write
and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Michelle Richmond
#91. In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.
Cedric Richmond
#92. Life's like Scrabble, you shouldn't save your good letters, you've got to use them as soon as you get them.
T.R. Richmond
#94. As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163
Michelle Richmond
#95. We tend to see life as a continuum, Julie, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You leave one life behind and start another. And each time, a different version of yourself emerges.
Michelle Richmond
#96. Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.
Lewis Richmond
#98. It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
Michelle Richmond
#99. Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys
Homer
#100. Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!
Legh Richmond
