#virginia

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ↗

— Ice T

#brother #came #dude #family #father

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. ↗

— Lee Majors

#i #little #little town #tennessee #town

There's a war on coal coming from this administration, and Congress seems to be going with it. Coal is West Virginia. It's the backbone of our budgets. To have this war on coal is destructive to our ability to maintain economic viability in the state. ↗

— David McKinley

#administration #backbone #budgets #coal #coming

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner--all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#virginia-woof #writing #life

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums. ↗

— Kyo Maclear

#children-s-books #dreams #happiness #imagination #kids-books

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#change

a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. ↗

— Harry F. Byrd

#business #conducted #corporation #economy #efficiency

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#been #debating #enrolled #existence #fifty