Quotes and Sayings about Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a hard working city. It's a blue-collar city and we tend to think that's the type of team we have. We got tough guys everywhere, we have guys who give it up for each other everywhere.

Philadelphia, baby. You're gonna love it. Best sports fans in the world. Actually the worst, but that's what makes 'em the best.

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

You can leave Philadelphia, but it will never leave you.

When you get hit in football, you got two options: You can stay down or you can get the F up. I know this group as fighters. I know this group will get up.

We showed up when it mattered the most. It was a complete team effort. We found a way. We're winning games and we have yet to play our best ball.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

My job ist to come in, run the show, set the table and make sure that everyone eats.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

There's a lot of players who, especially today, do all of these fancy ball handling drills and work on using a million different moves, none of which they'll be able to actually do in a game. It was refreshing to watch Sabrina play, who just thought the game at a different level.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

There is no reason to have a plan B, because it distracts from plan A.

Love will make you do crazy things.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an a-shole?"

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Lay you down when you go to sleep
And wipe your eyes every time you weep, oh
Tell you that life is not that deep
Paintin' pictures that I'm a freak, but I'm not a human

You know how I live, so just cool out, baby
I was born up in the nineties, swag came from the eighties
I was sweatin', she on fire, we hot like it's Haiti
And you know I stay with bands on me like my name Katie

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I used to pray for times like this, to rhyme like this
So I had to grind like that to shine like this

Man you claiming you the king of New York
What the f*ck wrong with you n*gga, step back
Hundred shots, aim straight at your snap cap
Everybody want the crown so I snatch that

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Tell me somethin' girl
Are you happy in this modern world?
Or do you need more
Is there somethin' else you're searchin' for?

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

You must change in order to survive.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.