And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

- Dave Grohl

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

- Lauren Groff

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

- Julian Bond

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

- Julia Glass

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

- Jason Mraz

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

- Jerry Falwell

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

- Ian Mcewan

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

- Henry Charles Carey

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

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

- George Rogers Clark

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

- Andrea Bocelli

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

- Corey Reynolds

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

- Cass Elliot

I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.

- Casey Wilson

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

- Cara Delevingne

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

- Brooks Robinson

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

- Billy Campbell

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

- Billy Campbell

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

- Brad Paisley

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

- Abel Ferrara