#virginia

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#carolinas #charters #extending #given #had

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#friends #jefferson #never #planters #rich

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? ↗

— Cass Elliot

#come #country #had #i #just

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#farming #grew #i #jobs #lot

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!' ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#been #business #campaign #complete #enter

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute. ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#achilles heel #afford #believe #cannot #comp

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#capital #coast #east #east coast #energy

I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#america #american #american dream #better #business