My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
Whenever I left New York, the Twin Towers welcomed me back in. It was a symbol of my city – the most unique city in the world, so when I moved to Virginia and later to Maryland, it meant even more.
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
Straight up, I’m from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let’s not forget that.
Well, my parents live in Cambridge, Maryland.
I wanted to go to the underdog team – I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends… Those thing matter to me.
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn’t only a function of geography. It’s also sociological. Indeed, it’s probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a teacher who changed the course of my life.
When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I’d write ‘civil rights’ on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.
Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
President Clinton, I sang at his post-inauguration party out in Maryland.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going – to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons – to learn – but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons – to become a writer.
It’s always an uphill battle. You know, I’m a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.
When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men’s basketball team – I’m not making this up – before we even had March madness, then you just know that it’s just political favoritism.
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland’s University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.
Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, ‘Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at a dining hall at the University of Maryland.’ That’s when I realized I was contrived. I was reciting jokes. So I really worked on – no matter what – sounding like I was just talking to the people.
In 2010, I attended Prince George’s Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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 Kipling, I’ve sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland – zero, when last I checked – we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
I believe this is a moment of truth for our country, a time when people of all parties and persuasions should stand together and denounce Trump’s campaign. That includes our governor here in Maryland.
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.
I went to an all-girls boarding school in Maryland. I used to laugh at the girls in the theater program – I was pre-med, National Honors Society; I was on that track.
My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.
Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.
To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called ‘a state of middle temperament.’ Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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