Philadelphia Quotes · Page 3

I love everything about this city, Philadelphia.

— Nick Foles

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

— Clarence Clemons

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

— Sarah Dessen

“If anyone loved danger, Jev Brennan did.”

— Katherine McIntyre

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

— Chaka Fattah

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

— W. C. Fields

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

— Ryan Howard

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

— John Adams

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

— Michael Nutter

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

— Lisa Scottoline

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost…

— Allen Iverson

Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.

— Norman Braman

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

— Jill Scott

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of…

— Michael Nutter

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his…

— Mark Twain

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

— Bob Uecker

Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any…

— Steve Kroft

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children…

— Libba Bray

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the…

— Anna Quindlen

As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised…

— Lynda Resnick

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we…

— Benjamin Franklin

A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct…

— Ilana Mercer

I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get…

— Tom Wolf

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the…

— Bil Keane

...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go…

— Martha Shelley

“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the…

— Luis Fenollosa Emilio

We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us…

— Ronald Reagan

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to…

— B. C. Forbes

Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there…

— Anonymous

It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of…

— Eustace Mullins

I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of…

— Noam Chomsky

Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure…

— Dar Williams

I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

— Richie Allen

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

— Bobby Seale

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

— Jonathan Franzen

Philadelphia would boo a cure for cancer

— Richie Allen

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

— Meek Mill

“ledgers in Philadelphia. What a pretty”

— Anonymous

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

— Bill Belichick

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

— Michael Nutter