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Quotes About Baltimore

In Baltimore it's 6:42!
~ George Carlin
Baltimore has the hardest work ethic out of all cities. It makes you want to work harder.
~ JPEGMAFIA
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.
~ Alex Berenson
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.
~ John Waters
I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.
~ Laura Lippman
Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
~ Martin O'Malley
I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.
~ Common
When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.
~ Abbi Jacobson
I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
~ Barbara Mikulski
You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.
~ David Simon
The National Road, sometimes called the Cumberland Road because it originally terminated in Cumberland, Maryland, was the first Federal highway. It was built between 1811 and 1820 for some $7,000,000 to connect Baltimore with Ohio. It followed a route laid out by Gen. James Braddock's pioneers during the French and Indian War and became an important line of commerce.
~ Eric J. Wittenberg
I'm just a regular Baltimore chick who believed in God enough to follow her dreams.
~ Bresha Webb
Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby.
~ Pam Shriver
I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.
~ Emily Giffin
Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.
~ Martin O'Malley
A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
~ Betty Hill
The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
~ Robin Wright
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
~ Bobby Bonilla
I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.
~ DeRay Mckesson
When it comes to Baltimore I want to say that it's actually a lot worse than what you see in 'The Wire.'
~ Gervonta Davis
Hey, it's tough not to have a ton of admiration for the fans of Baltimore. And, for it me, it's because they are such a hard-working, blue-collar fan base that loves football.
~ Joe Flacco
Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream; the city had one of the lowest literacy rates in the country, and along with illiteracy went a lack of morals.
~ Stephen Leather
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
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
~ Laura Lippman