Baltimore Quotes
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Baltimore Quotes & Sayings
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
— Bobby Bonilla
Detroit 8-1 vs. Baltimore, Chicago.
— Wayne Lynch
I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.
— Art Donovan
with his partner. Griff's out of Baltimore, too.
— Nora Roberts
I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.
— David Baltimore
McCafferty's was a Mount Washington steak house, sort of the Palm Lite, with caricatures of Baltimore celebrities hanging
— Laura Lippman
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
— Martin O'Malley
Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her
— Rebecca Skloot
I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
— Barbara Mikulski
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.
— Lisa Samson
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
— Bob Ehrlich
The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down.
— Greg Gutfeld
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
— Martin O'Malley
Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.
— Barack Obama
What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Baltimore is warm but pleasant ... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
— H.L. Mencken
The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.
— Plenary Councils Of Baltimore
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
— Jerry Leiber
I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me.
— Carmelo Anthony
Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.
— John Waters
I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.
— John Waters
I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.
— John Waters
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
— Harry Frankfurt
I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
— Jacoby Jones
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.
— David Simon
I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.
— Cyrus Chestnut
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
— Karen Hesse
Baltimore is a great place.
— Julie Bowen
He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.
— George Steinbrenner
If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
— Carol Moseley Braun
I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.
— Joe Flacco
'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
— Bayard Taylor
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
— Russell Baker
I'm an everything Baltimore fan.
— Josh Charles
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
— Mark Teixeira
Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
— Martin O'Malley
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.
— Gertrude Stein
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
— Nancy Pelosi
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
— Vic Willis
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
— David Baltimore
some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.
— Albert Belle
He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.
— Hines Ward
A big, friendly-looking man approaches me. "Hey, I'm Bobby," he says with a thick Baltimore accent, " ... and I'm an alcoholic.
— Augusten Burroughs
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
— Art Donovan
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
— Aidan Gillen
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
— John Moody
The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
— Robin Wright
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
— Jules Verne
The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.
— Gregory Kane
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.
— Ozzie Newsome
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.
— Kim Fields
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
— Josh Charles
The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cincinnati.
— Joe Kelley
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.
— David Baltimore
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
— Cass Elliot
Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
— Martin O'Malley
I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
— Bresha Webb
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
— H.L. Mencken
What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.
— Bernie Sanders
If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?
— David Simon
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.
— Sheldon Candis
Among the nation's 100 largest counties, the one where children face the worst odds of escaping poverty is the city of Baltimore, the study found.
— Anonymous
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
— Gwen Ifill
Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
— Frederick Douglass
New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.
— David Baltimore
John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
— Mink Stole