Portal:Philadelphia/Quotes archive/2007
2007[edit]
- December
"William Penn might, with reason, boast of having brought down upon earth the Golden Age, which in all probability, never had any real existence but in his dominions."
- November
"Philadelphia is a sober city today...Why, it is as good as Sunday to be in Philadelphia now."
- October
"Sticky cinnamon buns belong to Philadelphia as do Independence Hall and the Twelfth Street Market. This is a bun of true cinnamon flavor, of a stickiness incarnate."
– "Best Recipes of 1949" (This Week magazine)
- September
"Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name."
- August
"If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese."
- July
"Other American cities, no matter how bad their condition may be, all point with scorn to Philadelphia as worse; 'the worse-governed city in the country.'"
- June
"We're standing here in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom; where the founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence...and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal."
– Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) in Philadelphia
- May
"In Boston they ask how much does he know. In New York, how much is he worth. In Philadelphia, who were his parents."
- April
"Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch."
- March
"It is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street. The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its Quakerly influence."
- February
"...there is probably no city in the known world where dislike, amounting to the hatred of the coloured population, prevails more than in the city of brotherly love!"
- January
"Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies."