Quotes About Connection

I feel motherhood is the best phase in every woman's life.

I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

I wrote 'Me and Ma' to celebrate a beautiful phase of my life with people.

Phenomenal people in Ames and throughout the state of Iowa.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.

I love Phil Mickelson. He's a dear friend.

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

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.

Philadelphia made me who I am.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

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

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.

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.

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

Philadelphia is always going to be home.

I loved my time in Philadelphia. I loved the fanbase, the people, and they will tell you the same thing.

On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.