56 Quotes About Virginia
- Author Terry McAuliffe
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I personally believe in the power of second chances.
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- Author Charles P. Roland
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Robert E. Lee is America's great tragic hero, in the classical use of the term, doomed by a fatal flaw in one of his cardinal virtues, loyalty. He was a marvelously gifted soldier and an ardently devoted patriot, yet he defended the most unacceptable of American causes, secession and slavery, and he suffered the most un-American of experiences, defeat.
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- Author Patricia Cornwell
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For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.
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- Author Patrick Henry
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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- Author Pierce Brown
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All my life, I've tamed myself to not frighten others. Sometimes it is fun to let the lion out.
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- Author Florence King
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The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism. Virginia is a product of the eighteenth century. It's impossible to extract a belle from the Age of Reason.
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- Author Jessica Pennington
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Congrats on the tattoo... and the fish.
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- Author Beth Harbison
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The only thing here was a long gray ribbon of road, stretched like tape stuck by a toddler onto a rolling carpet of green hills under a huge arch of blue sky. This is Virginia. My Virginia, anyway.
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- Author Lois Benjamin
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The dilemma of choosing our identity is an ongoing progress that forces us…to decide consciously or unconsciously the direction in which we will expend our energy.
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