Toledo Quotes:

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Anorexia, Mind, Toledo, Brunette

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: thedailyhatch.org

topic: Toledo, Firsts, Factories, Leon, Trotsky

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

topic: Wall, Army, Hands, French Army, Fainting

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Morning, Children, Phoenix, Lebanese, Toledo

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

- John Denver

topic: Humorous, Night, Ohio, Toledo

My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's work. My Dad took a night class from him at the University of Toledo. Without that class, I wouldn't have become a photographer, because my Dad came home and taught me what he learned in class.

- Sam Abell

source: Source: aphotoeditor.com

topic: Dad, Home, Night, Toledo

I am proud to stand with hardworking families all over Toledo, Ohio and America who should have the same chance that I did to share in the American dream, which should be big enough for everybody.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Dream, Ohio, Should Have, Toledo

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

topic: Girl, Country, Morning, Portland Oregon, Toledo

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

- Alyson Stoner

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Ohio, Dancing, Hip Hop, Toledo

The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.

- Peter Earle

source: Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.30, Macmillan

topic: Practice, Yield, Pirate, Turkish, Pirate Ships

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

- Marsden Hartley

topic: Distance, Expression, Paris, Toledo, Traverse

People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

- Ben Silbermann

topic: Night, Thinking, People, Toledo, Headlights

What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is that like in star Wars? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away? Want to tell me where your Tatooine is located? Is it anywhere in this universe? Near Toledo maybe? The one in Ohio or Spain? I’m not picky. Can I MapQuest it? (Danger)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Stars, War, Mean, Long Time Ago, Picky

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

- Rahm Emanuel

topic: Ohio, Choices, President, Got Your Back, Auto Industry