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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. -- Gamaliel Bailey
I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720. -- John Woolman
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. -- Travis Barker
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened. -- Richard J. Daley
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. -- Paul Nurse
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. -- Billy Bob Thornton
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. -- Simon Newcomb
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids. -- Mac Davis
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public. -- Anne Grant
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime. -- Diane Mott Davidson
I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting. -- Sidney Sheldon
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. -- Berkeley Breathed
There's nothing sexy about Orange County. -- Will Ferrell
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. -- Mike Quigley
I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live. -- Thomas Dooley
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. -- Elyn Saks
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse. -- Andre Leon Talley
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. -- Cynthia Ozick
My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. -- Julie Walters
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. -- Eric Holder
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape. -- Dwight Yoakam
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. -- Twyla Tharp
I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve. -- Enya
Sevier County is a great area. -- Dolly Parton
I think our show is very different from Orange County. -- Josh Schwartz
Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County. -- Claude Rains
AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. -- Judy Woodruff
The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality. -- Kim Fowley
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. -- Edward Hopper
Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology. -- John R. Leopold
The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club. -- Benjamin Hoff
Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room -- Simon Hughes
When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo. -- Sally Rand
I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area. -- Donavon Frankenreiter
With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county -- Bob Filner
Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare]. -- Rachel Martin
The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Although he's [Tim Kaine] not popular here. You know, this is Loudoun County. Loudoun County's a big deal. -- Donald Trump
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times. -- Dick Dale
We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. -- Maria Cantwell
And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time. -- Richard M. Daley
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives. -- James McGreevey
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' -- Berkeley Breathed
I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick. -- Wyclef Jean
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. -- Chris Stapleton
Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up. -- Lillete Dubey
If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band? -- Steve Turner
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia. -- Stephen J. Cannell
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. -- Matt Smith
I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed. -- Gwen Stefani
I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. -- Tucker Carlson
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really. -- Matthew William Goode
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise. -- Huey Lewis
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad. -- Pierce Brosnan
I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal. -- Gwen Stefani
It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares. -- John Darnielle
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it. -- Bailey Chase
I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels. -- Vincent Frank
Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights. -- Cole Younger
Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty. -- Ruadhán J. McElroy
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me. -- Nancy McKeon
They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs. -- Kenny Johnson
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. -- Peter Garrett
I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. -- John Pomfret
Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility. -- Zev Yaroslavsky
Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either. -- Josh Weil
I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place. -- Mark Hoppus
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. -- Patricia Ireland
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County" -- Robert James Waller
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble. -- Edward Abbey
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. -- Michelle Forbes
Being a sexual icon is sort of like being the front man for an Orange County punk band: As soon as you can explain why you're necessary, you're over. -- Chuck Klosterman
Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican. -- Jeff Sessions
Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16. -- Britta Phillips
At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity. -- Marla Sokoloff
I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway. -- Bob Gunton
I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land. -- Beverly Lewis
This no longer a state of mind it's a reality, this is the beginning of an opportunity that hasn't presented itself in Collin County or any other county in the country. -- Florence Shapiro
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy. -- Jack Kingston
I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes. -- Liberace
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. -- Bob Beauprez
In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station. -- Rachel Maddow
In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television). -- Edwin Diamond
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. -- Rupert Murdoch
One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore. -- Joe Kyrillos
One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore. -- Joe Kyrillos
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. -- Robert Morgan
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. -- Jello Biafra
Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too. -- Robert Stack
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. -- John W. Gardner
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. -- Arthur Capper
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah. -- Edward Abbey
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody. -- Joe Jamail
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state. -- Huey Lewis
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County. -- Edward Abbey
Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country. -- Russell Pearce
You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change. -- Collin Peterson
Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.'They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program. -- Laura Pedersen
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape. -- Louis MacNeice
I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that. -- Jeannette Walls
The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County. -- David Jolly
My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle. -- Donald Bren
I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County. -- Maurice Hinchey
To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views. -- Joe Elliott
Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there. -- Ella Baker
I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from. -- Bruce Braley
I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.' -- Jeff Lemire
We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood! -- Atticus Shaffer
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night. -- Pico Iyer
Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him. -- Johnny Cash
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California. -- Michael B. Jordan
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood. -- Terry Brooks
When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim. -- Russell Pearce
I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I've always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I've been a huge fan since the early '90s. -- Stephen Colletti
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. -- Cole Younger
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of citizenship, prevented from enjoying their own, charged with violating the sacred principles of our Constitution and laws. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.

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