Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Ezra Stiles

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.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Jamaica Kincaid

Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Brooks Robinson

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

Bernie Sanders

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Amy Waldman

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Corey Reynolds

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Anthony Kennedy

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Albert Bushnell Hart

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Robert Hurt

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Robert Ballard

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Tim Scott

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Sean Hannity

In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.