Philadelphia Quotes · Page 4

Philadelphia might not want to hear this, but I grew up in Cleveland, and I think there are really a lot of…

— Jason Kelce

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern…

— Judith Viorst

I have a lot of confidence in myself and Philadelphia has a lot of confidence in me.

— Michael Carter-Williams

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a…

— Ice T

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he…

— Judith Viorst

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

— Jim Gerlach

I have the Puerto Rico power and the Philadelphia toughness and Philadelphia skills.

— Danny Garcia

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

— Albert C. Barnes

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

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper…

— Bob Uecker

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled…

— Jill Scott

There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way more haters.…

— Lil Uzi Vert

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me…

— Nina Simone

Most of my material is , it doesn't necessarily involve a lot of editing. So even the show with the World Meeting…

— Jim Gaffigan

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of…

— Frances Wright

It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,…

— Fred Rodell

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World…

— Herbert Hoover

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would…

— Allen Iverson

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say…

— Adam Cole

“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to…

— G.K. Chesterton

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic…

— Martina Navratilova

Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the…

— James Madison

When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.

— Tamron Hall

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

— Ethel Waters

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually…

— Kelly Corrigan

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

— Bill Cosby

I'd love to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm a South Jersey kid, and I was very excited when the Phillies won…

— Myron Rolle

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

— Michael Nutter

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls…

— Sylvester Stallone

Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.

— Candace Owens

If the Philadelphia Eagles weren't on, I wasn't interested. Unless I had a chance to watch Randy Moss.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.

— Black Thought

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet,…

— Ice T

I hear my voice and I cringe, I kind of hear Philadelphia in there, my hometown.

— Michael Buffer

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

— Bo Belinsky

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

— Oscar Robertson

I came into ECW in Philadelphia in 1996 and left in 2001 - a much bigger, worldwide star than I arrived -…

— Rob Van Dam

“School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.”

— Susan Meissner