Quotes About Virginians

#1. The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Emma Thompson

#2. Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

Lewis Armistead

#3. I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people.

Tim Kaine

#4. Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

John Sergeant Wise

#5. I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

William Faulkner

#6. Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.

Isabel Scott Rorick

#7. The Virginians of the mountains, and of the broad valley of the Shenandoah River just beyond, were a different breed.

James L. Haley

#8. I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

Tim Kaine

#9. Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

Tim Kaine

#10. I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

Robin Williams

#11. The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

Patrick Henry

#12. Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

John Brown Gordon

#14. By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants.

Nancy Isenberg

#15. I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

Joe Manchin

#16. We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#17. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.

Margaret Mitchell

#18. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

James McBride

#19. Cotton says, "If God be the gardener, who shall pluck up what he sets down?" Hear that, Indians? No weeding of the white people allowed. Unless they're Catholic. Or one of those Satan-worshipping Virginians.

Sarah Vowell

#20. God has not given this false marriage his blessing. Every year he has turned his face from me and I should have seen it earlier. The queen is not my wife, she is Arthur's wife.

Philippa Gregory

#21. British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Christopher Isherwood

#22. I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

Henry Rollins

#23. Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on the point of a pin. You could bring your entire world into doubt in a span of a few seconds.

Ann Brashares

#24. Saying NO is important,
HOW we say NO is CRUCIAL..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#25. That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

Rex Stout

#26. If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Matt Cartwright

#27. President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

Sam Ewing

#28. I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

Patrick Henry

#29. It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

Alan Moore

#30. Remain pure, not in order to be noble or strong but to be yourself. To give your love is to lose love.

Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from yourself.

Pessoa, Fernando

#31. In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.

Ma Jun

#32. Well, she had had the most wonderful summer; she had got that anyhow tucked away up the sleeve of her memory, and could bring it out and look at it when the days were wet and she felt cold and sick.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#33. The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Nazim Hikmet

#34. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson