Philadelphia Quotes

• I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Lost
  • Practice
  • Leaving

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

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Week
  • Last
  • Philadelphia

• This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Time
  • City
  • Chicago

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Perfect

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

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• 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.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Losing
  • Philadelphia

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

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • Late
  • Philadelphia

• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

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

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Lies
  • Living
  • Here

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • Safe
  • Streets
  • Philadelphia

• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Live
  • Children
  • Philadelphia

• If we lose the game, we're not going anywhere. So my mind-set is on one thing, Philadelphia. That's the way I feel about it.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Way

• I don't think I'm as bad as I'm made out to be. I did things in Philadelphia, but I don't have any intention of doing those things in St. Louis.

  

  Richie Allen
  • Doing
  • Intention
  • Philadelphia

• Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • War
  • Race
  • Vietnam War

• Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum.

  

  Albert C. Barnes
  • Depressing
  • Philadelphia
  • Slum

• I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

  

  Josh Kopelman
  • Ideas
  • Founders
  • Philadelphia

• The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • September
  • Despite
  • Feds

• I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

  

  Lil Dicky
  • Really
  • Back
  • Teams

• If I leave Philadelphia, it's not because I want to leave. I'm still in love with the place. I want to be here.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Love
  • Place
  • Leave

• Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Grew Up
  • Philadelphia

• Some months earlier one of his oldest friends, Junto charter member Hugh Roberts, had written with news of the club and how the political quarreling in Philadelphia had continued to divide the membership. Franklin expressed hope that the squabbles would not keep Roberts from the meetings. “’tis now perhaps one of the oldest clubs, as I think it was formerly one of the best, in the King’s dominions; it wants but about two years of forty since it was established.” Few men were so lucky as to belong to such a group. “We loved and still love one another; we are grown grey together and yet it is too early to part. Let us sit till the evening of life is spent; the last hours were always the most joyous. When we can stay no longer ’tis time enough then to bid each other good night, separate, and go quietly to bed.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Hope
  • Membership
  • Franklin

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

  

  Albert C. Barnes
  • Art
  • Museum
  • Philadelphia

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