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Quotes About Baltimore

Baltimore has proven themselves on the football field. We can't take that away.
~ Jim Brown
Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
raids on the coast of England and Ireland by slavers from Africa. One whole village, Baltimore, on the Irish coast, was carried off in one raid.
~ Louis L'Amour
My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.
~ JPEGMAFIA
I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.
~ JPEGMAFIA
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
~ Nancy Pelosi
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
~ Wendell Pierce
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 was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. 'Norman Lear wants to do 'Baltimore' on television,' Lanford said. 'What do you think?'
~ Conchata Ferrell
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.
~ Jerry Leiber
I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.
~ Philipp Meyer
Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.
~ Bob McNair
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
~ John Moody
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
~ Nancy Pelosi
When I was in Baltimore, it was all about raising me and not having players come in and out of there. It was about raising men, and there was a reason why it built up to the success.
~ Ed Reed
Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
~ Frederick Douglass
When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
~ John Waters
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
~ Aidan Gillen
What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.
~ David A. Clarke, Jr.
You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four, Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore …
~ Anne Tyler
We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.
~ Philipp Meyer
There's just more emotion and raw feeling in Baltimore music. It can't be copied.
~ JPEGMAFIA
Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.
~ Goldlink
We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
~ Kevin Plank