Quotes About Akron

LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

This milestone was the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, in June of 1935.

I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.

A kid with a dream from Akron Ohio. Now chopping it up with the Prez. Life is Good

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

The Akron AWOL in my storm cellar. Can't be an accident. It was fated, man! Fated!" "You kicked me in the nuts. That wasn't fate; it was your foot.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I smiled at the young woman with the warmth and goodwill that only the pure of heart, or the people who've recently swallowed a handful of OxyContin, can muster. "I'm Allison Weiss. Are you Beatrice?" I had gotten the call the night before, from a woman who'd introduced herself as Kim Caster, a producer for The News on Nine, the local evening newscast. "Did you hear about that mess in Akron?" she had asked.

I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

We've always had talented kids coming out of Maryland, Baltimore, D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, eastern Ohio, Columbus, Akron.

I'm just a little kid from Akron.