Steel City Quotes

I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995), a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

Pittsburgh is a football town.

Pittsburgh is a very unique place.

As a kid you were proud to say you were from Pittsburgh.

I love the city of Pittsburgh.

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

I'm a Western Pennsylvania Democrat.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

I am a Pittsburgh girl at heart.

I am Pittsburgh proud, I root for the Steelers and I still have my Terrible Towel!

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So I come from an amazing sports town.

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

I miss Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

Pittsburgh is a great organization.

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

Sheffield has everything as far as I'm concerned and the football club is right in the heart of it.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.