All Americans come from Ohio originally: First Fun Fact Friday

Friday, April 1, 2011

First Fun Fact Friday

Portman with her parents, Avner and Shelley

I'm now dedicating Fridays to little factoids regarding Ohio, which require no elaboration. First up, Natalie Portman's (the most recent best actress Oscar winner) parents met at a Jewish student center at The Ohio State University. Her mother is a Cincinnati native.

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Notable Ohio Quotes

"Ohio is the apothesis of Americanism. The middle west begins with Indiana, the east with Pennsylvania, the south with Kentucky, and, surrounded by these sits Ohio, one of the richest spots on earth. Its contribution to music, art, literature and the theatre is far greater than any two states in the nation." —Louis Bromfield
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favorably and pleasantly to a stranger at first glance as this does. -- Charles Dickens (American Notes)
Cleveland was the hub. If a song became popular in Cleveland, that [sic] would become a hit all over the country. -- Tony Bennett
Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Ohio epitomizes our collective image of what the country should be. -- Robert Thompson (Syracuse University professor of TV, radio & film)
One day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Poor Warren. He wasn't a bad egg, Just weak. He loved women and Ohio. -- John Ashbery (referring to President Warren G. Harding)
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort—to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.—is the very climate which secures the highest civilization. -- Rutherford B. Hayes