Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

David Lynch

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Tom Hanks

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

Ryne Sandberg

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

Sherman Hemsley

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Nina Simone

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

John Sergeant Wise

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

Jim Gerlach

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

Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Napoleon Hill

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Mark Twain

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Leon Botstein

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Donald Kagan

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Allan Bloom

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Keith Greene

I think it should be required that every paper says something about AIDS in their pages,

Richard Gere

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Maria Davis

I have the AIDS virus myself, that's why I'm trying to educate my brothers and sisters.

Guns Roses

If Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS / And all the broke (people) passed away. / You're telling me if my grandmother is in the NBA / right now she'd be OK, / but since she was just a secretary working for the church for 35 years, things gotta stop right here.

Paul Wolfowitz

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

Phil Lilienthal

I try to stay away from the politics of AIDS. But the people have to know that HIV does lead to the AIDS virus and education will make a huge difference.

Maria Mitchell

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!