Louisville Quotes - Page 2

• Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

  Madi Diaz

  Running, Teacher, Children

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

  David Pajo

  Growing Up, Stuff, Would Be

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Looks

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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