Ohio Quotes

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)
There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence. View quote
William Howard Taft
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin'. Four dead in Ohio. View quote
Neil Young
This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson. View quote
Matt Groening
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. View quote
Natalie Babbitt
I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7. View quote
Alyson Stoner
I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary. View quote
Chester Himes
Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. View quote
Ethel Waters
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)
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan. View quote
Hugh Douglas
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side. View quote
John Lahr
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund. View quote
Josh Mandel
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. View quote
Josh Mandel
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. View quote
Kenneth Koch
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. View quote
Ken Blackwell
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. View quote
Mike DeWine
I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado. View quote
Mojo Nixon
We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. View quote
Nick Robinson
I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. (Nina Blackwood)
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. View quote
Pete du Pont
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. View quote
Phil Niekro
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. View quote
Patricia Heaton
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. View quote
Sherrod Brown