Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.
When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.
It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly. . . But. . . I am sure there is no case for lamentation. . . Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.