Jamestown Quotes

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Never since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now.

Loyalty, support, and 'the sisterhood' are there in spades in 'Jamestown.'

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.

When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it.' You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history.

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement, established in 1607. The first permanent settlement was St. Augustine, established in 1565, by -- you know it – Spain.

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

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

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.