Ohio Quotes

Here in Ohio, the hardcore scene is a big thing, so some of our good friends are in hardcore bands. So we’ve had to figure out how the heck we get these people to respect us.

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.

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Ohio produces champions at every level.

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.

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

It has been a dream of mine to play for Ohio State. This prestigious university best represents my family values, and playing under Urban Meyer’s strong leadership abilities and a person that I can have a relationship with after football was important.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

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

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

In ’38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

As Ohio Solicitor General and in pro bono private practice, I defended Ohio’s hate crimes law. This included a brief in the Wisconsin v. Mitchell case where the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin’s hate crime law that included sexual orientation. Ohio’s should include it as well, and we support it.

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they’re going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast – a little bit of variance on the coast – I’m from Ohio, and I understand that.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and I went to college at Boston University. I majored in film. Then I came out to Los Angeles.

Early voting is a vital component of the electoral landscape in Ohio.

Before being elected to Congress, I was a mayor, and it’s this perspective that makes me certain that Ed FitzGerald is the right kind of leader to get Ohio back on track.

Because I put in so much time and preparation, when I’m in the booth during a game, I see X’s and O’s. I just see football, and I remove my emotion from anything I ever do, whether it’s my kids playing, Ohio State playing.

I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, ‘How’s Ohio doing?’ For some reason, they just weren’t coming around!

As Ohio’s working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country’s history, we need a president who‘s committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She’s like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

The Court’s majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio’s payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools’ religious missions.

I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

It’s troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.

That’s one thing I loved about coming up when we came up. When you had groups like Mandrill and Earth, Wind & Fire, Sly Stone, and on and on and on, the Brothers Johnson, whatever. Everybody, Ohio Players. Groups wanted to be just themselves.

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage – and that’s good news for Ohio.

People look at me like I’m crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

Chrissie Hynde’s from Ohio, and so am I. If there’s a Cleveland sound, that’s what it is.

Ohio is my home, always. I’m a homegirl. Ohio is my home. Ohio is my first love.

I’m for the fracking. I think it’s 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.

If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale.

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

I’m a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

Five states – Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina – have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks – stacks over 500 feet – were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

People don’t cut through Michigan the way they cut through Ohio and Pennsylvania and Illinois. So tolls are more complicated for us because we’re a destination state.

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that I went to high school with that didn’t go to college eventually wound up in Vietnam, and I noticed that they came home different. I was in Ohio during the Vietnam War era.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.