80 Cincinnati Quotes

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Famous Cincinnati Quotes

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy. — Eric Davis

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee. — Leonard Louis Levinson

The City that knows how. — William Howard Taft

Cleveland fans are awesome. - LeBron James

Cleveland fans are awesome. — LeBron James

Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan. — Hugh Douglas

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1. — Dar Williams

I'm in Cleveland. I enjoy myself. I enjoy going out and competing at highest level for the Cleveland Cavaliers. — Kyrie Irving

The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation. — Jerry Tarkanian

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO. — Snoop Dogg

I'll stay in Memphis. — Elvis Presley

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams

I'm an everything Baltimore fan. — Josh Charles

I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life. — The Miz

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. — Fred Willard

This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3. — Colin Mochrie

Short Cincinnati Quotes

  • Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. — Mark Twain
  • As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more. — Gunther Schuller
  • If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play? — George Carlin
  • Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish. — Adam Dunn
  • I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid. — Terry Southern
  • The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
  • Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. — Kim Harrison
  • I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati. — Dusty Baker
  • Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game. — Adam Dunn

Home Insurance Quotes

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. — Raymond Chandler

Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's. — Dick Vitale

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance. — Debbie Stabenow

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. — Herman Melville

There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we are talking about investment opportunities in Morocco for various sectors of our economy and we will continue to do that. — Donald Evans

I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here. — Barack Obama

Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee. — Elizabeth Warren

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach. — Chris Van Hollen

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages. — George W. Bush

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More Cincinnati Quotes

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. — Gamaliel Bailey

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. — Carroll Quigley

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program. — Howard Schultz

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. — John Lee Hooker

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money. — Chris Martin

This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players. — Ken Griffey, Jr.

I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places. — Vera-Ellen

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves. — Dhani Jones

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio. — David Icke

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team. — Rosemary Clooney

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati. — Eric Davis

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

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer. — Suzanne Farrell

Honestly, in the beginning, it was really tough. Coming from Cincinnati, Ohio, I was just a girl who had a dream, which was to go to Los Angeles, have a career and to be able to support my family. To have a dream like that and, you know, you're not ready. — Carmen Electra

I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much. — Doris Day

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts. — John Thorn

There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested. — Jim Courier

I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others. — Graham Taylor

My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule. — Graham Taylor

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do. — Cornel West

The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later. — Charles R. Morris

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati. — Charles R. Morris

The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity." — Jason Graae

Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true. — William Monahan

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati. — Leo Durocher

I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works. — Veena Sud

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. — Ryan Murphy

I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind. — Cate Marvin

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing. — Bill Watterson

Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper. — Bill Watterson

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque. — Bill Watterson

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked. — Bill Watterson

I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs. — Frances Trollope

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that. — Al Sharpton

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