Portal:Philadelphia/Quotes archive/2006
2006[edit]
- December
"Philadelphia is a city to be happy in...Everything is well conditioned and cared for. If any fault could be found it would be that of too much regularity and too nice precision."
- November
"Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia."
- October
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe."
- September
"I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here."
- August
"A Mardi Gras riot happened in Philadelphia. The people were nuts, they went berserk! I haven't seen that much looting since the Clintons left the White House!"
- July
"Why am I playing at both Wembley and Philadelphia? Because I'm mad that's why."
- June
- Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. This was an epitaph Fields proposed for himself in a 1925 article in Vanity Fair . It refers to his long standing jokes about Philadelphia (his actual birthplace), and the grave being one place he might actually not prefer to be. This is often repeated as "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.", or "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." which he might have stated at other times. It has also sometimes been distorted into a final dig at Philadelphia: "Better here than in Philadelphia." His actual tomb at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California simply reads "W. C. Fields 1880 - 1946". q:W. C. Fields
- May
People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music. Kevin Eubanks
- April
I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.
- March
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. - W. C. Fields