#philadelphia

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. ↗

— Richie Allen

#except #first #i #left #philadelphia

The time to make up your mind about people, is never. ↗

— Philip Barry

#tracy-lord #acting

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. ↗

— Norman Granz

#baltimore #been #better #bit #doing

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#philadelphia #proud

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

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

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

#anywhere #because #cooperation #could #factory

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. ↗

— David Lynch

#every #i #many #meant #philadelphia

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

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way. ↗

— Jane Shellenberger

#gardening #philadelphia #volkswagon-bug #experience

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

— Frank Rizzo

#only #people #philadelphia #safe #streets