The Virginian Quotes

#1. Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Lemony Snicket

#2. I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

A.S. Byatt

#3. I am not a Virginian, but an American.

Patrick Henry

#4. My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Robert Ballard

#5. My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

Laurence Yep

#6. The powers that be don't want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

Bernard Hopkins

#7. May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Samuel Freeman Miller

#8. A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

William Cowper

#9. I don't like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn't choose to tell them.

Ann Aguirre

#10. I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.

Colin Woodard

#11. The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

Denis Leary

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

Patrick Henry

#13. That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

Gordon Gould

#14. Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

Wayne Newton

#15. I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

Kate Jackson

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

Patrick Henry

#17. I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

John Raese

#18. Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.

R.A. Salvatore

#19. The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

T.E. Lawrence

#20. I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Boris Kodjoe

#21. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.

Joseph Goldstein

#22. When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

Mike Birbiglia

#23. As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Martin Freeman

#24. I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

Joe Manchin

#25. I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Simon McBurney