Best Philadelphia Quotes
142 Philadelphia quotes by 112 unique authors
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Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with…
— Russell Conwell
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Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.
— Jim Gerlach
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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day…
— Michael Nutter
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Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of…
— Andrea Mitchell
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
— Andrea Mitchell
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It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I…
— Al Franken
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That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't…
— Unknown Author
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The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he…
— Bob Uecker
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When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to…
— Eric Holder
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Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
— Bo Belinsky
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At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It…
— Amar Bose
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When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage.…
— Tom Glazer
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The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.
— Harry Kalas
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked…
— C. Everett Koop
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
— John Sergeant Wise
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Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in…
— George Mason
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It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates,…
— Eustace Mullins
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First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.
— W.C. Fields
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To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore…
— Norman Granz
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In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief…
— Charlie Chaplin
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have…
— Bernard Hopkins
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I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.
— Lisa Scottoline
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
— Oscar Wilde
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I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
— David Lynch
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