#virginia

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#damn #gave #her #i #me

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#books #called #college #courses #first

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#built #civil #civil war #darkness #facing

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#couple #couples #married #married couple #other

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia? ↗

— Tim Kaine

#economy #learn #lessons #nationally #should

Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down at the moment, started so violently that he missed his footing and only saved himself by the skin of his teeth. 'If the sight of my ankles means death to an honest fellow who, no doubt, has a wife and family to support, I must, in all humanity, keep them covered,' Orlando thought. Yet her legs were among her chieftest beauties. And she fell to thinking what an odd pass we have come to when all a woman's beauty has to be kept covered lest a sailor fall from a mast-head. 'A pox on them!' she said, realizing for the first time what, in other circumstances, she would have been taught as a child, that is to say, the sacred responsibilities of womanhood... ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#humor #orlando #quotes #virginia-woolf #beauty

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#come #how #live #move #open

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arrested #because #breath #catching #completely

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#keep #known #say #sister #used