Top 225 Portland Quotes & Sayings

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.

Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

Obviously I've loved my time here in Portland.

I have always had a strange relationship to Portland, Oregon. It's a great city. The people who live there love it openly and loudly, and it regularly appears on the lists of best American cities. But something has always felt weird to me about Portland. And not in the way Portlanders mean 'weird' in their slogan 'Keep Portland weird.'

When I was really rolling in Portland, I was top five in minutes.

I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland.

Mike Marshman is a quality choice to fill the role of Portland Police Chief.

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

Once my family grew bigger I loved Portland more.

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

I feel like there's a true spirit of individuality in Portland that's inherent to the place.

I like Portland. It's a cute city. You've got a lot of twirly mustaches and things - I'm into that, the hipsters.

Portland needs a mayor who is going to take on the significant issues this city is facing.

I'm very open to Portland.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal.

I love Portland and I have so much history there and I knew it like the back of my hand, so the decision to leave was never easy.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.

Is Portland worse off than other cities? Is Portland really 'Tent City U.S.A.?' I want to be clear: The answer is no. While the homeless situation in Portland is significant and unacceptable, it is not unique.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good. They can afford bigger houses, or they can actually afford to buy a house, they can work the minimal amount and still get by. I think there's a really strong sense of community there. It's beautiful.

Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?"

I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.

Portland has a proud history of protest.

Portland is incredible. It's the most amazing place.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

To me, Portland, there's a lot of things to do out there especially if you have a growing family.

I miss playing basketball and the city of Portland and the Rose Garden.

If I had to make a choice for the Hall of Fame... I would have gone in as a Portland Trail Blazer.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and into stability. This is the Portland I imagine. This is the Portland I dream about every single day.

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

I just love Portland, man. For real.

Portland is where young people go to retire.

Portland was such a great place to be while filming because there were a lot of things to do when we weren't shooting.

I took my first acting classes in Portland at Portland State University and the Portland Actors Conservatory.

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit.

I'd love to bring a championship here to Portland.

When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a head coach.