Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in…

I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

— W. C. Fields

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

— W. C. Fields

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

— W. C. Fields

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

— W. C. Fields

Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He…

— Lenny Dykstra

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

— W. C. Fields

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they…

— Mike Schmidt

“Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.”

— Katherine McIntyre

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a…

— Tom Glazer

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb…

— Daryl Hall

For me, Philadelphia was always kind of that city you traveled to as an independent wrestler. I traveled there once or twice a month,…

— Johnny Gargano

Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out…

— Jay Leno

...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be…

— Martha Shelley

I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and…

— Mahershala Ali

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

— Michael Nutter