Philadelphia Quotes · Page 4

“On July 4 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia voted,”

— Thomas B. Allen

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.

— Grace Kelly

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

— W. C. Fields

I loved Philadelphia. I loved my teammates.

— Cris Carter

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

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

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

— Tina Fey

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

This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole…

— Danny Garcia

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an…

— Lisa Scottoline

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums…

— Ernie Isley

All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All…

— Anne Sexton

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a…

— Mike Berenstain

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to…

— Diana Ross

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that…

— David McCullough

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when…

— Walter Cronkite

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out…

— Joe Frazier

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But…

— Colin Powell

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included…

— Ishmael Reed

So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was…

— Rush Limbaugh

“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a…

— Christopher Hitchens

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice,…

— Anna Howard Shaw

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat…

— Russell Lynes

We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we…

— Steve Shaw

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

— Anita Loos

Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region.

— Robert Brady

The thing is, I retired as a Philadelphia Eagle, so I would never turn my back on the Philadelphia Eagles.

— Randall Cunningham

I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else…

— Kevin Hart

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

— Tamron Hall

I loved my time in Philadelphia. I loved the fanbase, the people, and they will tell you the same thing.

— Nick Foles

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

— Albert C. Barnes

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

— Danny Garcia

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next…

— Mike Schmidt

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

— Ethel Waters

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from…

— John Sergeant Wise

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