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I cannot imagine the horror the patrons and employees witnessed today, and my heart aches for the family who lost a loved one. We are all grappling with how something so devastating could happen at a place that has given generations of families such happy memories.

— Statement by Lisa Cupid, Cobb County Board of Commissioners chairwoman, about the incident and offering condolences

We have never watched the parade before, and we said: We must now watch the historic parade – especially with our children, so that they can see how agriculture used to function.

— Frank Schnötzinger from Schnittlingen, in the context of coverage of the Cannstatter Volksfestumzug; he explains why his family is watching the historic parade to show the children how farming used to work.

For the first time in the Cannstatter Volksfest’s more than 200-year history and for the first time in Baden-Württemberg’s nearly 75-year history, the state has not sent a man to the festival’s opening stage, Nopper said, for the first time the state is sending a woman – a minister and, moreover, a genuine Badnerin from Haslach im Kinzigtal to us in the heart of Württemberg.

— Frank Nopper, Mayor of Stuttgart, commenting on the historic milestone of sending a woman to the festival’s opening stage.

I didn't want to be domestic. I wanted to be free. I had my songs to sing, I had an ambition and it burned inside me. It was something I knew would take me out of the mountains. I knew I could see worlds beyond the Smoky Mountains.

— Dolly Parton, in her 1977 Rolling Stone cover story