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Quotes About Baltimore

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.
~ Vonda Shepard
This town is the Greek Baltimore.
~ David Sedaris
The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.
~ DeRay Mckesson
I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.
~ Unknown
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
~ David Simon
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 was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
~ Cass Elliot
We've always had talented kids coming out of Maryland, Baltimore, D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, eastern Ohio, Columbus, Akron.
~ Oliver Luck
I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
~ DeRay Mckesson
His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup.
~ John Cheever
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
~ H. L. Mencken
With only one proven quarterback in Baltimore, Unitas sensed his chances for success were better there. Thus would the relative fortunes of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts be forever changed.
~ Unknown