Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Duvall

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Lee Majors

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Joyce Carol Oates

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joe Manchin

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Brooks Robinson

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Bernie Sanders

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Amy Waldman

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

W. C. Fields

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

Chaka Fattah

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

Camille Paglia

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Al Franken

It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

Al Gore

The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.

Amar Bose

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

Angela Merkel

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

Danny Garcia

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

Morgan Freeman

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Julia Stiles

I pretty much grew up in public.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Brian McKnight

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Ann Kirkpatrick

I grew up learning to do more with less.

Jim Gaffigan

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

Dan Fogler

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.