Pittsburgh Local Quotes & Sayings

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

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. — Warren Farrell

your gaze
across
my cheeks

turned them
into
strawberry fields. — Sanober Khan

Wanting Kate was one thing. Sex was simple. Or it could be. But liking her?
Enjoying spending time with her? Allowing her into his private life, as Brody had tonight, albeit at his sisters' invitation? It would lead to nothing but trouble. — Jackie Braun

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed! — John Randolph Donnell

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion. — Jessye Norman

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. — Alan Dershowitz

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear. — Carol Anshaw