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I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. — Tina Fey

Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee. — Katherine McIntyre

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia. — Sherman Hemsley

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

Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee. — Ayana Mathis

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region. — Daryl Hall

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons — Phil Collins

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. — Anna Quindlen

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. — Mike Schmidt

Philadelphia, where no good deed goes unpunished . . . - STEVE LOPEZ The Philadelphia Inquirer January 15, 1995 — Craig Johnson

someday there'd be a way, maybe ice, maybe some other way, to get a peach like this here I got in my hand clear to Philadelphia. — John Steinbeck

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia. — Paul F. Tompkins

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. — Jonathan Franzen

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again, — Jim Leyland

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

Dr. Hartmann. He was a famous neurologist from Philadelphia. — David Reuben

This was, therefore, the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia. — Benjamin Franklin

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia. — Patti Smith

The Philadelphia Story, but — Paula McLain

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

[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties
the men are gay and the women are in their nineties. — Alice-Leone Moats

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks. — W.C. Fields

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree. — Bill Cosby

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

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. — W.C. Fields

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York. — Elizabeth Banks

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. — Gore Vidal

Jake. From Philadelphia." Then he shook everybody's hand, like he was joining a poker game. Another Jacob. Michael turned to his brother whose eyes — Alice McDermott

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion. — Jimmy Smith

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever. — Allen Iverson

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop. — Todd Rundgren

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin ... and you. I'll be there soon. — Sarah Dessen

Those pinked-skinned Jesus freaks that made the laws and owned the prisons were makin' more money off the drug game than we ever did. — Connor Pritchard

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day. — Jim Gerlach

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. — David Lynch

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

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature. — Charlie Day

Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night — W.C. Fields

Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child's. — Katherine McIntyre

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe. — Frank Rizzo

Seattle gets less rain than New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami. — Timothy Egan

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. — James Carville

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship. — Oscar Robertson

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport. — Michael Nutter

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia. — Julius Erving

In Georgia, there was a eucalyptus tree in the wood across from Hattie's house, but the plant had been hard to come by in the Philadelphia winter. — Ayana Mathis

Wilder, Amos. Theopoetic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976. — David Willis

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat. — Mike Barnicle

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

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

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. — Gore Vidal

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

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence. — Harold Holzer

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

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?' — Adam McKay

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it. — Jill Scott

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community. — Rob McClure

Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one - I've tried. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie. — Ryne Sandberg

I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions. — Steve Capus

My heart is breaking because I'm alone. I know I have Wyatt right now, but that will change. I'll go back to Philadelphia and be a single mom. It's — Corinne Michaels

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

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia. — Jerry Coleman

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

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum — Albert C. Barnes

The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball. — Harry Kalas

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

Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia. — W.C. Fields

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya. — Ron A Swan

I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard. — Linden Ashby

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it. — Josh Kopelman

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers. — Bobby Seale

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

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

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. — Richie Allen

You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia ... a tourist. — Jerry Lawler

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before. — Meek Mill

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer. — John Adams

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. — Tom Hanks

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

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. — Daryl Hall

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? — Mark Twain

Sadly the SS United States, the fastest Passenger Ship ever built, now rests in Philadelphia awaiting an unknown fate. — Hank Bracker

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly. — Lisa Scottoline

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. — Judith Viorst

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. — H.L. Mencken

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'. — Ian T. Ker

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. — Bo Belinsky

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2 — Lois Charles

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city. — Michael Nutter

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. — Ice-T

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia. — Chaka Fattah

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it. — Eric Weiner

If anyone loved danger, Jev Brennan did. — Katherine McIntyre

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. — Kate DiCamillo

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia. — Steve Carlton

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. — Robert Anton Wilson