Top 165 Philadelphia Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Philadelphia Quotes from famous people such as Rob McElhenney, Michael Nutter, Ernie Isley, LeSean McCoy, Diplo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny'

I feel like it’s a dangerous and dark world if ‘Sunny’ becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o’clock on Thursday and see an episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,’ I don’t know if I want to live in that world.
Rob McElhenney
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
Michael Nutter
My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.
Ernie Isley
Any restaurant that I go around in Philadelphia, I tip very well. And I’m very respectful.
LeSean McCoy
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called ‘Florida’ when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ’ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
Diplo
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.
Richard Corliss
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.
Gus Dapperton
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia – Woody’s Truck Stop.
Todd Rundgren
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
Bobby Seale
Wayne, Jon, and the SeventySix Capital team are best in class and committed to building successful companies. Together, by leveraging the full weight of our knowledge, expertise and relationships, we can make a huge impact at home in Philadelphia and around the world.
Ryan Howard
My favorite television show is ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’
Mike Posner
When I was in ‘Philadelphia Story’ I got Joe Cotten to pick out my clothes. He loves clothes and he knows them; never gets the wrong tie and shirt combination.
Van Heflin
The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
Henry Louis Gates
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.
Rob Van Dam
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields
We had a bond creatively that came out of ‘Lady Marmalade.’ It was our link. And people don’t know this, but P!nk and I actually met when we were both 16 years old in Philadelphia. I was recording my first album, and we were working with the same producers, so I originally knew her as Alecia.
Mya
When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn’t come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.
Michael Bloomberg
I’m a secret interior decorator. There’s a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
Jill Scott
When I travel round the country, people can’t place my accent; if there’s someone in the audience, they’ll be like, ‘You’re from Philadelphia’, but everyone else will say, ‘Where are you from, California?’ I get England sometimes – bizarre!
Matthew Quick
The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball’s old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.
Frank Deford
It’s been more than a decade since ‘The Real World: Philadelphia’ aired. I’ve grown up. My views have evolved, as has the media landscape.
Karamo Brown
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We’ve always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
Lisa Scottoline
I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. I lived there till I was about 13, and then my family moved to Connecticut. I finished school there, and then I went to college in Philadelphia and came to New York in ’87. I wasn’t finished with school – I left school to go on the road.
LaChanze
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
Andrea Mitchell
People see my current success but don’t realize I’ve worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.
Kevin Eubanks
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.
Allyson Schwartz
I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.
Rob McClure
Three quarters of the East Coast’s refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region.
Robert Brady
I’d like to see Paris before I die… Philadelphia will do.
W. C. Fields
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ I did an episode on, and that’s one of my favorite television shows ever, and there are these shows that I watch so regularly.
Alexandra Daddario
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.
Adam Granduciel
I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am.

I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That’s who I am. That’s how Philadelphia basketball players are raised.
Kyle Lowry
I always loved Hanks in ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
Rami Malek
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
Bil Keane
I came of baseball age (isn’t it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A’s Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A’s fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.
Richard Corliss
But I’m interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It’s inspiring. I’m able to identify with them. It makes them real.
Jemima Kirke
My whole life, I’ve felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.
Andre Iguodala
When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show on campus.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Ethel Waters
When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People talked more slowly there and said words I had never heard before, like ‘ain’t’ and ‘y’all’ and ‘ma’am.’ Everybody knew everybody else. Even if they didn’t, they acted like they did.
Kate DiCamillo
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. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up the payments.
Tom Glazer
I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood – I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in ‘The Crucible.’ I played John Proctor.
Robert Picardo
Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
Pat Gillick
You look at passers-by in Rome and think, ‘Do they know what they have here?’ You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
Frank McCourt
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it’s where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
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.’
Catherine Reitman
I always loved the signs on the outfield walls, and I’ll never forget the one in Philadelphia. It said, ‘The Phillies use Lifebuoy soap,’ and underneath was scrawled, ‘And they still stink.’
Joe Garagiola
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
New Year’s Eve, we’re going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
Barbara Cook
My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
Aretha Franklin
I’m proud to be from Philadelphia.
Sherman Hemsley
When I was at the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer,’ I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe’s and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.
Stephen A. Smith
Philadelphia made me who I am.
Danny Garcia
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.
Tom Thibodeau
What’s the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit – taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington – has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.
Patti LuPone
I’m very grateful for my time in Philadelphia and I want to thank the Eagles organization for the opportunity to play here.
Nnamdi Asomugha
I don’t have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
H. G. Bissinger
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
Ryne Sandberg
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
Allen Johnson
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing – actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Penn Jillette
I want to hire guys that fit that mold; I want guys where it’s about the Philadelphia Eagles first, that check their egos at the door.
Doug Pederson
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 grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
Amar Bose
We can only solve our biggest problems if we come toget

We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.
Michael Bloomberg
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Julius Erving
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.
Nafessa Williams
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops – and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it – it practically lifted me out of my chair.
David McCullough
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
Philadelphia’s a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
Gardner Dozois
You just have to find a lawyer that won’t let you sign certain things – and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
Darlene Love
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
Ailyn Perez
With Animal Factory you’d think that because it’s mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.
Steve Buscemi
I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Frankie Avalon
It’s not like I’m a Buddhist or anything, but I think we’ve all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I’ve been fortunate.
Howie Long
My great uncle, my mom’s uncle, had an appliance store in Philadelphia, and it was called Peter’s TV. They sold stereos and televisions and washers, dryers, all kinds of stuff.
Michael Giacchino
‘The Philadelphia Story’ is one of my favorite movies, as is ‘Bringing Up Baby.’
Abigail Spencer
Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.
Norman Braman
In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it’s not the truth. It’s interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they’re the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.
Stromae
I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I’m in Philly.
Jake Tapper
When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn’t even occur to me that that was something you could do.
Paul F. Tompkins
Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don’t conform to a mandated ‘white’ status quo can be redlined out of a space.
Anthea Butler
I love Air Force Ones. That’s the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It’s retro. It’s tradition. That’s me, old school.
Rasheed Wallace
I’m from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It’s also the only time I have vacation.
Abbi Jacobson
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
If I wrote in Jacob Riis’ time, I’d be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in ‘The Battle with the Slums’ – and we won.
Matthew Desmond
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
Jimmy Smith
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
Olivia Wilde
Portland doesn’t read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I’m apparently willing to watch the same episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ like, seven times.
Shane Carruth
I’ll play first, third, left. I’ll play anywhere – except Philadelphia.
Richie Allen
Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.
Robert Brady
I have always been ‘small town.’ I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years in a log cabin on the Appalachian Trail. We lived outside of York in Red Lion, which is an amazing town. It’s perpetually 1982 in that town.
Lzzy Hale
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.
Robert Brady
As a U.S. History major, there is something very cool about being in cities, and walking the streets of Philadelphia or Boston or New York and seeing historical sites.
J. J. Redick
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina c

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Edward Rutherfurd
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
Kate DiCamillo
I grew up in Mount Airy, a middle-class enclave in the Northwestern area of Philadelphia.
Black Thought
My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
Naomi Klein
Coach Pederson is the one who drafted me. He was the only coach who flew down to Texas and worked me out. I was only worked out by one team, and that was by Coach Pederson… the Philadelphia Eagles took a chance on me.
Nick Foles
I’m from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
Abbi Jacobson
I’d like to get out of Philadelphia. I don’t care for the people or their attitude, although they don’t bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.
Richie Allen
More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.
Robert Brady
Rooting is following, and I don’t do that, but I’d like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
Steve Carlton
I’ve never been incarcerated; I don’t deal with these things on a day-to-day basis in my own personal life, but I have family members that do. I have friends that do. I have people in the city that I live in, Philadelphia, that are dealing with this on a daily basis.
Malcolm Jenkins
I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself ‘Philly’s Constant Hitmaker’ when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones’ first album, ‘England’s Newest Hit Makers.’
Kurt Vile
I was with Lanford Wilson in Philadelphia watching a play of his when the call came from Hollywood. ‘Norman Lear wants to do ‘Baltimore’ on television,’ Lanford said. ‘What do you think?’
Conchata Ferrell
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
Michael Nutter
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
I really disliked Philadelphia society – really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it.
Martha Nussbaum
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I’m fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
Daryl Hall
Thank you to Josh Harris for the trust he has placed in me to lead the 76ers. I am humbled by the challenge and will work tirelessly to win the hearts of Philadelphia’s legendary fans.
Daryl Morey
As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren’t wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.
Lynda Resnick
I wasn’t going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.
Kevin Bacon
When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn’t choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.
Jon Runyan
I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence – and all my friends were more talented than I was.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.
Norman Braman
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
Gore Vidal
If I’m a busboy in Philadelphia, then I have to be careful about what I say. But if I’m a public tycoon like Jerry Seinfeld, and I got a billion dollars in my pocket, he’s got to be nuts to wonder or worry about what people are going to think.
Jackie Mason
I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we’re Philly.
Lisa Scottoline
Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.
Steve Capus
I’m looking to grab the UFC and pull them back in the direction of Philadelphia.
Eddie Alvarez
I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.
Meek Mill
Part of the problem when I was doing ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the ’94 Northridge earthquake.
David Morse
I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.
Lil Dicky
Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can’t do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn’t do as well.
Jeff Van Gundy
I hear my voice and I cringe, I kind of hear Philadelph

I hear my voice and I cringe, I kind of hear Philadelphia in there, my hometown.
Michael Buffer
I grew up the No. 1 Michael Jordan fan on Earth. I was from the Philadelphia area and Jordan was king.
Frank Vogel
I’d go around Philadelphia and everybody still loved me. Until the Eagles won, I was the only champ they had.
Danny Garcia
When I came to Philadelphia in the late ’80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
Tamron Hall
I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.
Richie Allen
From the moment I arrived in Philadelphia, the city has embraced me.
Tobias Harris
As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV’s ‘The Real World: Philadelphia,’ I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.
Karamo Brown
The part in ‘Philadelphia’ where I represent the law firm that’s firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn’t sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
Mary Steenburgen
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I’ve made movies all over the world… I’ve been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London – I’ve been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, ‘People who choose to live here are insane.’
John Landis
Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, I saw many operas in New York and Philadelphia. When people found out about that, they were always shocked, because I was a professional wrestler. Why are athletes any different than any other profession? People have many other interests.
Bruno Sammartino
I didn’t leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals – mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn’t have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
Jill Scott
‘The Philadelphia Story’ is one of my favorite movies.
Christoph Waltz
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell
I love Philadelphia.
Chris Long
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi – ‘1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure’ – it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.
Marty Stuart
It was a great experience for me – the ups and downs – because I became a man in Philadelphia.
Allen Iverson
I’m a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. 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
I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, ‘I love this. This is what I want to do forever.’ There was never another question.
Mary Ellen Mark
I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.
Cory Lidle
You can’t be Allen Iverson on a football team. And even Iverson got run out of Philadelphia when he was still a spectacular talent because the Sixers got tired of the headache and his bad attitude.
Jason Whitlock
We should do ‘Takeaway’ from Chicago or Philadelphia. We’d have great fun with it.
Declan Donnelly
When I wrote ‘Silver Linings,’ I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.
Matthew Quick
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
Jonathan Kozol
Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I’ve played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn’t come close to describing who I really am.
Nick Foles
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 for the first time.
John Sergeant Wise
I’d love to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I’m a South Jersey kid, and I was very excited when the Phillies won the World Series, and I’d like to stay home.
Myron Rolle
I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.
Adam Cole
Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his ‘Scientific Management’ doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.
Stanley A. McChrystal
I have the Puerto Rico power and the Philadelphia toughness and Philadelphia skills.
Danny Garcia
I did ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ at the same time. It’s kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.
Mary Steenburgen
I’ve done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it’s a great, great town.
Toni Collette
Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia

Look at the greatest dressers in history – Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Sir Anthony Eden, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor, John F. Kennedy, and Gary Cooper – they all sport the well placed pocket adornment.
Roger Stone
In the early ’70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Daryl Hall
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
Jake Tapper
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
W. C. Fields
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 they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
C. Everett Koop
I think there’s a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.
Tim Donaghy
I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I’d come home eventually and settle down, but I didn’t.
Kelly Corrigan
Being able to provide kindness to people putting their lives at risk in hospitals and supporting Philadelphia families in dire need of help is an important responsibility for me.
Tobias Harris
I wanted to box when I was 7, but I couldn’t because in Philadelphia you need to be 10 to get insurance. So me and my dad waited 3 years until I could sign up, and I’ve been fighting since then.
Danny Garcia
There’s a lot of haters in Philly, but it’s a lot of people that give you support – but way more haters. It’s definitely a great city to be from. But it’s not really a lot of people that come out of there. So when you, like, make it out of Philadelphia, everywhere else is easy.
Lil Uzi Vert