Top 44 West Virginia Quotes

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

My grandmother Dora taught me how to cook. She’s from a small town in West Virginia called Milton. I would pull a stool up to her kitchen counter after school. My love of food started there.

You can’t take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once… and tell them, ‘You can make minimum wage,’ or, ‘We can give you job training for jobs that don’t exist in West Virginia.’

But my family is connected to coal. There’s hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn’t have a connection to the coal industry.

The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.

If President Trump and his administration succeed, West Virginia will succeed.

Katherine Johnson is a shining example of what you can truly do with hard work and persistence. Under what had to be the most difficult of circumstances she persevered and stuck to her values. She is a real West Virginia and American hero. To honor her legacy every August 26th, on her birthday, is the least we can do.

West Virginia built this nation… we deserve respect.

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It’s the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same – as always. I look for what’s best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

I cannot sit here and say I was beaten by Carol Miller. Because Carol Miller did not show up. She did not debate me. She basically avoided everything and just said, ‘I’m with Trump, I’m with Trump.’ And sadly, that’s apparently a victory here in a place like southern West Virginia.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

I mean, I didn’t ever watch ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and think, ‘Those people are actors.’ I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit them. You actually drive right by Gettysburg and some other spots where there were huge battles.

We welcome and encourage motorcycle riders from all over the country to come visit and stay in West Virginia while riding on our scenic roads.

I’m from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

I miss West Virginia very much.

I hated baseball. I really didn’t like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me… Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, ‘I’ll be home tomorrow.’

I’d lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I’m familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he’s the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

As a lifelong sportsman, I am proud to work with our state and federal partners to make elk restoration in West Virginia a success story.

There have been so many stories out there about me, so many untruths. I’ve always believed you can only control what you can control. I can control my attitude, my effort, my commitment to West Virginia. I can’t control lies.

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.

I’ve been surrounded by good people at West Virginia. That helped me a lot.

We’re talking about a chemical that’s out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it’s now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.

Anytime you’re in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads,’ it’s a sight to behold.

I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA’s not going to happen.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren’t a lot of jobs.

Having the President of the United States in West Virginia is a tremendous honor.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.

If Pitt is on the short list, there’s no reason that West Virginia shouldn’t be on the Big 12 short list.

There are so many great things happening in West Virginia, and I will continue to work every day to move our state forward.

I didn’t run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.

History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia or Kentucky – all states that his boss won twice – then he’d have won the election anyway.

One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.

I can assure you that my wife and I – every penny of income we’ve ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.