#virginia

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#divide #force #forward #i #looks

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 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

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#better #i #less #mediterranean #more

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#i #like #live #pound #risk

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#attractive #campaign #committee #distinguished #george

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#colony #disappear #earlier #reason #some

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality. ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#company #fight #grow #growth #i

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