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Quotes About Cincinnati

August] 17th. [1859] At Cincinnati. This is the first time in my life that I have appeared before an audience in so great a city as this. I therefore--though I am no longer a young man-- make this appearance under some degree of embarrassment. But I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking or thinking about it, and go at something else.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.
~ Aaron Lazar
Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.
~ Joan Bauer
You know, I started with the law firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati back in 1990.
~ Robert Bilott
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
~ Suzanne Farrell
There's been a lot of good people in Cincinnati who have pushed me, my wife and my family to be better people, and we're grateful for that.
~ Andy Dalton
I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.
~ Sarah Dessen
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
~ John Boehner
'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.
~ Kim Harrison
Suci, a Sumatran rhino, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
There's a lot of good people here in Cincinnati, and there are a lot of people that are willing to help others.
~ Andy Dalton
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
~ Ring Lardner
Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
~ Gail Collins
Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.
~ Eric Davis
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I prefer Cincinnati, personally, over a tournament like Madrid. For me it's better. There's a lot to do here, in my opinion.
~ Jack Sock
Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.
~ Ryan Murphy
One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.
~ Fannie Hurst
I heard you're moving," Wendy said. "Who did you hear that from?" "It's a small town." Jenna smiled without a trace of joy. "Aren't they all? Yes, we're moving. Noel is going to be chief of cardiac surgery at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital." "That was quick." "He's
~ Harlan Coben
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.
~ Rosemary Clooney
Jennie went about her work, but the impression persisted; his name ran in her mind. Lester Kane. And he was from Cincinnati.
~ Theodore Dreiser
I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
~ Barry Larkin
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
~ Mark Twain
At Cincinnati, where we arrived about dawn, I asked the Traveller's Aid girl the name of some Catholic churches, and got in a taxi to go to St. Francis Xavier's, where
~ Thomas Merton