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Quotes About Philadelphia

I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.
~ Adam Cole
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.
~ Steve Capus
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
~ Bo Belinsky
William Penn planned to use this land for a colony where Quaker ideas would be followed. He wanted the settlers to be like brothers, all equal to each other. The capital city would be called the City of Brotherly Love--in Greek, Philadelphia.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.
~ Adam F. Goldberg
In a letter to Benjamin Franklin he described how the explosion of the Augusta created a cloud like none other he had ever seen: "a thick smoke rising like a pillar and spreading from the top like a tree." It did not become the symbol of a new and terrible age of destruction for another 168 years, but in the fall of 1777 the skyline of Philadelphia was darkened by the shadow of the mushroom cloud.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.
~ Norman Braman
The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.
~ Daryl Hall
In 1848 the Homeopathic Medical College was founded in Philadelphia, eventually becoming the Drexel University College of Medicine. Homeopathic M.D. degrees were issued by schools across the country to many thousands of homeopathic physicians.
~ Kurt Andersen
The School of the Future: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The School of the Future in Philadelphia is unique in that it is the first urban high school to be built in a working partnership with
~ Cathy N. Davidson
On the evening of November 1, at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Eisenhower addressed the tensions in the Mediterranean by letting fly a salvo of antitribal idealism, declaring, "We cannot and will not condone armed aggression—no matter who the attacker, and no matter who the victim. We cannot—in the world, any more than in our own nation—subscribe to one law for the weak, another law for the strong; one law of those opposing us, another for those allied with us.
~ James D. Hornfischer
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
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
~ Daryl Hall
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
~ John Jay Hooker
I grew up in the neighborhood where 'Rocky' came from.
~ Black Thought
And presently I was shaking hands with both of them in the street, the sloping street, and everything was whirling and flying before the approaching white deluge, and a truck with a mattress from Philadelphia was confidently rolling down to an empty house, and dust was running and writhing over the exact slab of stone where Charlotte, when they lifted the laprobe for me, had been revealed, curled up, her eyes intact, their black lashes still wet, matted, like yours, Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
~ W.C. Fields
When he got work my father worked as a steel worker, high up on tall buildings, walking on beams like those Mohawk Indians. It was dangerous work. People were always falling to their death. He worked on the building of the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia and on the few high-rise buildings they could afford to build in the Depression.
~ Charles Brandt
The Army gives you $100 a month for three months. The men who didn't go seem to have all the good jobs and you just go back to where you came from and try to pick up where you left off. I went back to live with my parents in West Philly and back to Pearlstein's to pick up where I left off as an apprentice. But I couldn't handle being cooped up in a job after living outdoors all that time overseas.
~ Charles Brandt
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had blue laws that didn't allow bars to be open on Sunday. No stores were open. It was the day of worship. Even later on when night baseball came in, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Athletics could play baseball at Shibe Park on Sunday only while there was daylight. They weren't allowed to turn on the stadium lights on Sunday. Many a Sunday game was called on account of darkness.
~ Charles Brandt
Russell had not been coming to Philly just for prosciutto bread and sweet and hot sausage from Roselli's, not even extra-hot sausage. He had business interests with Angelo Bruno, their own kind of business. And
~ Charles Brandt
And yet the passive scheme he had his team play frustrated opponents so much, the Philadelphia Flyers actually just held the puck and stopped skating in a 2011 game, which the Wall Street Journal called "the worst hockey game ever.
~ Greg Wyshynski
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
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
~ David Lynch