Ohio quotes

Ohio

157 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

157 quotes
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist

"I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it."

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LeBron James
LeBron James Professional Basketball Player

"I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

"All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now."

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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
Ohio

"I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus."

Book Dream Ohio
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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
Ohio

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

Years Basketball Ohio
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Ohio

"Hillary Clinton announced she's running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, 'That locks down the Hispanic vote.'"

Running Yesterday Ohio
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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Ohio

"Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains."

Years Dog Ohio
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Ohio

"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."

Sight Iron Ohio
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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
Ohio

"Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft."

Country Army Ohio
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Ohio

"Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn."

Light New York Ohio
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Eric Williams Politician
Ohio

"For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line."

Church Lines Ohio
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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
Ohio

"Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school."

Home School Ohio
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John Lewis Politician
Ohio

"In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process."

Mean Past Ohio
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Ohio

"Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion."

Children Quality Ohio
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Ohio

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

People World Ohio
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Ohio

"All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves."

Army Blue Ohio
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Ohio

"I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it."

Men Song Ohio
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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Ohio

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio."

Summer Soldier Ohio
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