Ohio Quotes

• What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

  Bob Taft

  Unique, Cities, Quality

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• Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Race, Yesterday

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• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Party, Home

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Mcdonalds, Preparation

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

  LeBron James

  Given

  "Kevin Love Announces Return To Cavaliers In C-Rate Version Of LeBron’s ‘I’m Coming Back’ Letter" By Maxwell Strachan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2015.

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• In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

  Toni Morrison

  People, World, Reason

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• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, England, Backgrounds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Meanwhile, there are some traditional battleground states - like Ohio and Iowa - that are becoming older, whiter and less educated. That's turning them from true battlegrounds into more reliable red states.

  Mara Liasson

  Iowa, Red, Becoming

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.

  Josh Mandel

  Race, People, Care

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• Im for the fracking. I think its an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.

  Mike DeWine

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Years, Four

  "LeBron James returning to Cleveland, where he has unfinished business" by Jason Hanna, www.cnn.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

  Will Rogers

  Pregnancy, Government, President

  "How we elect our Presidents". Book by Will Day, p. 9, 1952.

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  Ethel Waters

  Mohawks, Columbus, Mysterious

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• We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell

  Squares, Geography, Miles

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Long

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Monsters, Giants

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  Ted Strickland

  Jobs, Virginia, People

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mother, Cincinnati Ohio, Literature

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• Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

  Sherrod Brown

  Two, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Years

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• I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

  Nina Blackwood

  Littles, Grew Up, Grew

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• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Years, Cleveland

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• I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Clark Gable

  Lucky, Right Time, Happened

  "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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• The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Voting, Denial

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