Baltimore Quotes - Page 2

• When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. I think that your people, when you save a place. But the problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Cities, Saving, Korean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Rivers, Wife

  Song: Hungry Heart, Album: The River, 1980

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• Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.

  Barack Obama

  New York, Children, Believe

  "Baltimore unrest as Obama pushes mentoring program" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2015.

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• America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.

  David Simon

  Country, Block, Two

  "David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'". www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2013.

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• 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

  Country, New York, Funny Things

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hands, Years, Two

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• The people of Baltimore are great. I love Baltimore. What I looked forward to, every year, was getting a new apartment in a different part of town and hanging out. People started to see you in the character that you were, so everyone thought I was real police.

  Wendell Pierce

  Real, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Character, Long Ago

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.401, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• 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

  Cities, America, Criminals

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

  John Moody

  Ohio, Interesting, Connections

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

  Russell Baker

  Understanding, Flesh, Purses

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• Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Yearbook, Church

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• I grew up in Baltimore which is a one of the biggest drug cities. I've seen a lot of drugs... so it was always around me, but I never really indulged in those type of activities. I never used drugs in my life and I was blessed enough with the wisdom and the strength to move forward.

  Mario

  Moving, Blessed, Cities

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kings, Vegetables, Trying

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• 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

  Moving, Cities, Style

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• I think when you have Baltimore, which in the first night was practically wiped out or brought back 30 years. Because the police were instructed to stand down. You can't let that happen.

  Donald Trump

  Night, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Home, Oakland

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

  Earl Monroe

  Fun, Guy, Stories

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• Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

  Mark Teixeira

  Cake, Crabs, Snob

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• We’ll always be grateful for the love we’ve received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl. I’ll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens.

  Ray Rice

  Love, Grateful, Winning

  "At crossroads in quest to continue NFL career, Ray Rice asks forgiveness" by Aaron Wilson, www.baltimoresun.com. February 13, 2015.

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• What care though rival cities soar
  Along the stormy coast,
  Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
  If Boston knew the most!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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