Top 430 Philadelphia Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 27, 2024.
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.
I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.
Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region.
I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
I was in Philadelphia when Kobe was a senior in high school and he used to come to all our practices and I would work him out.
I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am. That's how Philadelphia basketball players are raised.
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
I'd go around Philadelphia and everybody still loved me. Until the Eagles won, I was the only champ they had.
I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.
I have lots of confidence in myself that I can fulfill my dreams and make the people of Philadelphia proud.
Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.
Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.
All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.
I think there's a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.
I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.
I'm lucky enough to be stopped on the street for two things, usually: for 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' and for 'Workin' Moms.'
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.
I grew up in a small town outside Philadelphia and went to the local high school, where I ran track all four years.
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.
I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
I'm very grateful for my time in Philadelphia and I want to thank the Eagles organization for the opportunity to play here.
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
I'm looking to grab the UFC and pull them back in the direction of Philadelphia.
I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.
When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show on campus.
When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.
