Top 110 Baltimore Quotes

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.

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

I love Baltimore.

I came to be a part of the ballroom scene in late 1993. I was living in Baltimore, and i was going through that phase in high school when no one understood me. I was sneaking out of my house to go to this group that was for gay-identified people, and I just didn’t fit in.

Baltimore is a tough place, but I love every bit of it.

In 2011, I started a nonprofit organization, Venture for America, to help bring talented young entrepreneurs to create thousands of jobs in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Birmingham, Baltimore and other cities around the country.

I never had a job. My first job was quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens.

I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. ‘Norman Lear wants to do ‘Baltimore’ on television,’ Lanford said. ‘What do you think?’

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.

People say ‘The Wire’s bleak, y’know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it’s one written in a very strange and complex way.

With Damageplan, we had to endure the Pantera fans, because Pantera is what they really wanted. But with Hellyeah, at a show in Baltimore, the crowd knew all the words.

There’s no place like Baltimore.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He’s from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you’re reading, it feels so honest.

Both ‘The Wire’ and ‘Queer as Folk’ had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

I thought Ray Lewis was 6-6, 275 pounds, all muscle. I did a commercial with him before I even got drafted to the Baltimore Ravens. I was like, ‘Oh, you’re not that tall.’ But it’s just something about that guy.

To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.

Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don’t really fit the preppy boater kind of style.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

People expect me to be that guy. But I’m more east London boy than east Baltimore.

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that’s how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear – then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.

The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It’s one of the untold stories of the city.

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children’s Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

I was writing ‘He Who Shapes’ when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.

Going through everything in my mind, I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking Baltimore, thinking this is my fit, this is where I want to be, and they want me.

You don’t have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.

I love Baltimore, I miss the people, but I think L.A. is way more chill.

I used to live in Philly, so I was in Baltimore a lot wrestling before I got to WWE, wrestling for different promotions.

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.

I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland’s biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

We’re tying to get Baltimore on the right track.

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I’m a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

I enjoyed my time in Baltimore. I really did. I learned so much.

I’m an everything Baltimore fan.

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.

Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimore, tremendously good and compassionate people, and a tremendous opportunity to save a lot a lives.

I just want to bring happiness back to Baltimore.

I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something.

Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

I think it’s awesome. Playing here in Baltimore is a dream come true for me.

Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I’m obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.

When it comes to Baltimore I want to say that it’s actually a lot worse than what you see in ‘The Wire.’

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they’re so lousy, but I don’t mean it.

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.

Baltimore is definitely still home. It’s always going to be home for me.

I was the youngest kid on our street in Baltimore, and I was always playing sports with kids who were older than me. You learn a lot that way.

I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we’d go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That’s what passed for Baltimore sports.

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America’s largest cities.

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.

If Baltimore’s view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.