Philadelphia Quotes - Page 2

• The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

  Tom Hanks

  Prejudice, Aids, Social

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• When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done.

  Matt Stairs

  Sports, Nice, Guy

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

  W. C. Fields

  Fog, Lasts, Week

  Quoted in "Godfrey Daniels!," ed. Richard J. Anobile (1975)

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• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Father, Son, Males

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• I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

  George Dzundza

  Kindness, Cat, Cities

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

  Jonathan Franzen

  Manhattan, Brooklyn, Made

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

  Kevin Hart

  Wings, Guy, Doe

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• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Magic

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• At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

  Chaka Fattah

  Games, Boards, Three

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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 what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

  Russell Conwell

  Men, Wish, Would Be

  Russell Conwell (2007). “Acres of Diamonds (Business Success Edition)”, p.50, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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

  Ethel Waters

  New York, Cities, Bigs

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Independence, Liberty

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• They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

  Bob Uecker

  God, Easter, Kids

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Italian, Islands

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• 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

  Cities, Letters, Atlantic City

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

  Eli Wallach

  Years, Play, Independence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

  Walter Cronkite

  Country, Today, Constitution

  Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.

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• I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

  Meek Mill

  Thinking, Shots

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• I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

  Daryl Hall

  Thinking, Years, Musical

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• 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.

  Ed Bradley

  Children, Book, Kids

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• 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.

  Michael Nutter

  New York, Atlanta, People

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

  Andrea Mitchell

  War, Race, Watches

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Albert C. Barnes

  Art, Museums, House

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• We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

  Chaka Fattah

  Needs, Bills, Months

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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 ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Italian, Cities, Community

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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