Richmond Quotes - Page 1

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
Jennifer Wyatt / Golfer
Hacking
Richmond
Yards
Yard
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I think my big break was getting out of Richmond, California, alive.
Salim Akil /
Richmond
Big Break
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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
Claire Tomalin / Author
Richmond
Belong
Concert
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I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the confederacy.
Corey Reynolds / Theatre Actor
Born
Raised
Richmond
Virginia
Capital
Confederacy
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I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.
Jason Becker / Guitarist
Profound
Richmond
Love Music Influence
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I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
Elliott Yamin / Singer
Funky
Richmond
Jewish
Va
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
Douglas Brinkley / Author
Horse
Richmond
Courthouse
Lee
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I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
Ray Dandridge /
Richmond
Virginia
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When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.
Constance Wu /
Richmond
Virginia
Newspaper
Op-Ed
Published
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A boyfriend made me a hammock in Richmond Park once. That was lovely - although I ended up getting a tick on my stomach from the deer.
Emma Healey /
Boyfriend
Deer
Lovely
Richmond
Stomach
Tick
Hammock
Park
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On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Arthur
Confederate
Monument
Richmond
Statues
Avenue
Va
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Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
John Shelton Reed / Sociologist
Assurance
Boundaries
Mean
Phoenix
Richmond
Writing
Enclose
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
Tamara Tunie / Film Actress
African American
Cat
Maggie
Richmond
Roof
Tin
Upside Down
Virginia
Upside
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At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans.
Asap Rocky / Rapper
Brands
Eight
Jeans
Lauren
Richmond
Wearing
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
Tommy
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I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
Terry Mcauliffe / Governor Of Virginia
Delegates
Richmond
Bold
Thinks
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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 / Film Actor
War
Children
Civil War
Minutes
Richmond
Virginia
Civil
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Richmond Fontaine bandleader Willy Vlautin writes songs akin to finely composed short stories set in the diners, bars, casinos, and old hotels of Reno and its environs.
George Pelecanos / Author
Bars
Richmond
Composed
Finely
Hotels
Reno
Short Stories
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It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Knute Nelson / Former U.s. Senator
Atlanta
Enemy
Georgia
Richmond
Virginia
Concentrated
Main
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Memories of my Southern upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, always include the smell of good southern food: fried chicken, cheese grits, Smithfield ham, and buttermilk biscuits.
Tinsley Mortimer /
Biscuits
Cheese
Fried Chicken
Ham
Richmond
Smell
Upbringing
Virginia
Good Food Memories
Chicken
Fried
Include
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Cost
Literature
London
Paid
Richmond
Two
Costs
Demanded
Passage
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Even though Richmond is a three-quarter mile, it's a fast short track... So it gives you - maybe you could call it a false of security a little bit, but it seems to be working for me.
Kyle Busch / Race Car Driver
Richmond
False
Mile
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I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you've ever looked at in your life.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Bass
Richmond
Three
Life Beautiful Your
Life Most Beautiful Beautiful
Biggest
Catch
Life Beautiful Most Beautiful
Exactly
James
Looked
Most Beautiful
Out Here
River
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Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
Bobby Scott / U.s. Representative
Adequate
Funding
Issues
Port
Richmond
Significant
Years
Commercial
Each Year
Enter
Hampton
Issue
Port Security
Roads
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I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.
Ryan Stiles / Actor
Sports
Class
High School
Invites
Looks
Richmond
See Never Know
Graduated
However
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We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Philip Kearny /
Cowardice
Declaration
Enemy
Order
Ought
Richmond
Treason
Full
Follow
Instead
Prompted
Retreating
View
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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Education
Elevation
Emancipation
Father
Manhood
Richmond
School
Suffrage
Uncompromising
Views
Gradual
Masses
Notions
Places
Public Schools
Schools
Slaves
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Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey / Actress
Attractive
Being Smart
Diamond
Husband
Promise
Richmond
Rough
Sexy
Smart
Tough
Yeah
Date
Saw
Jeff
Met
Took
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I'm not saying none of these guys are talented, but people think Ed Sheeran crawled off a couch and lived on the street or something, but him, Ellie Goulding... they all come from Suffolk, Surrey, Richmond... they come from support.
James Arthur / Singer
Richmond
Couch
Talented
Ed Sheeran
None
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In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
Tom Robbins / Author
Accepted
Aesthetic
Hush
Ideas
Might
Radical
Richmond
Seattle
Virginia
Applauded
Gotten
Occasionally
Puppies
Soon
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead /
Amazing
Curry
Richmond
Thai
Family Women Amazing
Cafe
Group
Owned
Restaurant
Whenever
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove / Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
Looks
Notorious
Republican
Richmond
Slander
Writer
Arranged
Named
Read
Hire
James
Jefferson
John
Newspaper
Personal
Thomas
Va
Worked
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Morning
Clever
Host
Oxford
Richmond
Son
Surprise
Venture
Windsor
Yesterday
Express
Farther
Intended
Leading
Send
Sufficiently
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Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
Kevin Powers / Writer
College
Fireworks
Fourth
July
Memories
Powerful
Remember When
Richmond
School
Shooting
Me Remember People
Student
Noises
Smells
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A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
William Cullen Bryant /
Appearance
Beautiful City
Dark
Hills
March
Midst
Pleasant
Richmond
Standing
Sunshine
City
Front
Gardens
Glittering
Saw
James
Large
Leaves
Overlook
River
Seated
Several
Themselves
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Cycling is a part of my life; it always has been, and I will always continue to cycle. I won't be doing it on the world stage, doing it competitively, but I'll still be out on the weekend with the masses riding around Richmond Park in my Team Sky jersey or whatever. I just love it.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Jersey
Richmond
Riding
Sky
Life Love World
Cycle
World Stage
Masses
Park
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I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?
Lil Dicky /
Funny
Business
Agency
Comedic
Corporate
Funny People
Hundred
Left
Realistic
Richmond
School
Thousand
University
Job
Ad
After
Also
Graduated
Major
Maybe
Took
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At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
Karen Abbott / Author
Army
Cities
Confederate
Operations
Overwhelmed
Prepared
Richmond
Young Women
Work Men Women
Established
Base
Capital
Departments
Work Women Men
Number
Prospective
Thousands
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My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
Constance Wu /
Animal
Richmond
Virginia
Assigned
Dogs
Featured
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
D'angelo / Singer-Songwriter
Bedroom
Brown
Demos
Entirety
Fighting
Majority
Richmond
Sugar
Album
Record
Producing
Studio
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I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Every Night
Lifetime
Profession
Richmond
Supreme
Supreme Court
Appeal
Time Home Night
Awesome
Planned
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When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.
James Comey /
Crime
Dying
Horrific
Levels
Prosecutor
Richmond
Violent
Describe
Experiencing
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