#philadelphia

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#came #down #first #guy #heard

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay. ↗

— Robert Brady

#also #bay #chesapeake #civic #dedicated

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone. ↗

— Robert Brady

#dependent #jobs #more #philadelphia #port

Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region. ↗

— Robert Brady

#coast #east #located #philadelphia #quarters

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#following #i #i love #like #love

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i think #once #philadelphia #spent #sunday

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#concert #could #doing #eve #feel

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#boarding school #bus #few #home #i

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i #last #philadelphia #week #went