Pittsburgh Quotes

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
Jonathan Kozol

Society, Today, Understand

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
Lawrence Welk

Music, Place, Born

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.
Ariel Sharon

Live, Place, United

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell

Baseball, Hit, Mobile

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy

Learned, Team, Difficult

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
Willie Stargell

Heart, Special, Place

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.
Wiz Khalifa

Whole, Artist, Won

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
Wiz Khalifa

Family, Different, Place

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.
Wiz Khalifa

York, East, Closer

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
Dylan McDermott

Work, Vision, Genius

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
Mario Lemieux

Speak, Until, English

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
Joe Manganiello

Good, Men, Home

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
Earl Campbell

Great, Job, Winning

I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
Alex Pettyfer

Baseball, Team, Worst

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine

God, Through, Soul

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
Drew Bledsoe

Hurt, Help, Game

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.
Jaromir Jagr

Time, Decision, Thought

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
Billy Gardell

Family, Someone, Pretty

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
John Pople

Problems, Return, Structure

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
John Pople

Children, Summer, Took

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Steve Carlton

Old, Against, Grand

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
John Landis

Movies, Live, Thinking

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
Justin Sane

War, Parents, Against

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
Laura San Giacomo

Acting, Here, College

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
Laura San Giacomo

York, Theater, Carnegie

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.
Franco Harris

Rather, Yes, Finished

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.
Brian Michael Bendis

Love, Smart, Hard

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.
Thomas J. Sargent

Spring, After, Call

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
Jackie Evancho

Wanted, Miss, Hi

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