Top 430 Philadelphia Quotes & Sayings

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

I was in Philadelphia - a very angry town, Philadelphia. I've never seen a town like this. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love - like when my brother was 12 and I was nine, and he would lean on my shoulder and dangle spit in my face.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

I grew up in Philadelphia.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

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

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.

The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night

I love everything about this city, Philadelphia.

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia... a tourist.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

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

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

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

So why am I an A's fan? Because, from 1901 to 1954, they were the Philadelphia Athletics. Philadelphia is my home town. The A's were the team I loved as a kid, and no gap of space or time can fray that bond.

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

Yes, Philadelphia is horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world. It was fear, but it was so strong, and so magical, like a magnet, that your imagination was always sparking in PhiladelphiaI just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City. The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.

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

I love Philadelphia.

Philadelphia made me who I am.

From the moment I arrived in Philadelphia, the city has embraced me.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

The city of Philadelphia is all about the underdog.

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

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

I'm a Philadelphia fighter in the truest sense. I never quit.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies, as is 'Bringing Up Baby.'

I'm really impressed with Kolb there in Philadelphia. He's a very talented quarterback.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

I mean, Philadelphia, if the Eagles were to win the Super Bowl, you kind of wonder how it'd change the city in some way. At the end of the day, as intense as Eagles fans are or as Philadelphia fans are, they really just love their team and they'll be happy either way. The Eagles have made Philadelphia proud.

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.

'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.

My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'

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

It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

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

We should do 'Takeaway' from Chicago or Philadelphia. We'd have great fun with it.

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Philadelphia's awesome. It's one of my top home-away-from-homes. When I walk around on the streets there, people recognize me. They think I'm from Philadelphia, because I was there so much and because I'm so associated with Philadelphia through ECW.

Philadelphia is a great market for local TV news. Both KYW and Channel 10 have had good runs. But Channel 6 doesn't give you a reason to turn the channel. I have such profound respect for Jim Gardner. He is Philadelphia television news.

I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.