Pittsburgh Quotes - Page 2

• The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

  Kim Edwards

  Losing Control, Cities, Car

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.410, Penguin

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Hospitality, Born

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for human beings. Those are the areas that I connect with because I come from places like that, and I just think it's interesting how the rest of the world acts like it doesn't exist. But a lot of the best things come from there.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Doctors, Average

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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• I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.

  Ryan Buell

  Wall, Crazy, Blood

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• 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

  Smart, Book, Independent

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• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  Laura San Giacomo

  New York, Carnegie, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Men, Years

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Bed, Rooms

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• If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Technology, Steel

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Travel, New York, Home

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• I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Couple, Years, Trying

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

  Dave Parker

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Joy, Super Bowl

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• My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

  Jim Leyland

  Baseball, Successful, Thinking

  "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

  Jamie Farr

  Book, People, Cleveland

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• I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Ties, Black, Gold

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

  Jason Kilar

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Keith Rothfus

  Wall, Years, Tourists

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• One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

  Dick Stuart

  Dog, Night, Fans

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• I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the federal government needing to be involved. I think we would have been much better served from the start if people would have better understood the principles of private property.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Government, Sky

  "The Washington Post - The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". votesmart.org. October 12, 2007.

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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• Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

  Johnny Carson

  Kind, Advantage, Newark

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• I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mean, Wonder, Hobbes

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