Boston Quotes · Page 7

Boston was a good situation for me, but I think it was over time they were able to understand what they had.

— Avery Bradley

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

— Kevin Garnett

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

— Terry Francona

I put more pressure on me than anyone else in Boston or on Team Canada.

— Joe Thornton

Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester.

— Michael Bastian

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

— Jack Valenti

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

— W. L. George

I've always, always loved going to Boston, pitching in Boston.

— Chris Sale

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and…

— Joshua Slocum

The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is…

— Louise Closser Hale

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

— Cole Porter

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice…

— John F. Kerry

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

— Dean O'Gorman

What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't remember one bad time I had in Boston as far as where I got negative feedback from fans, no matter…

— Rajon Rondo

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't…

— Edward Snowden

Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race…

— Charlie Pierce

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they…

— Kenny Wormald

When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven…

— Robert Hass

“Springtime in Massachusetts is depressing for those who embrace a progressive view of history and experience. It does not gradually develop as…

— Rebecca Harrington

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great…

— Richard Dawkins

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While…

— Rick Santorum

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers…

— Carmelo Anthony

“Hugging her feels as comforting as a warm cup of coffee on a cold Boston winter night.”

— Evie Sterling

I'm on the board of trustees at Boston University. I'm on the board of trustees at Jewish Family Services.

— Nina Tassler

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

— William P. Leahy

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

— David Muir

I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.

— Howie Long

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

— David Walton

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

— Anthony Doerr

I'd go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35 year-old guys.

— Dave Portnoy

I have nothing but positive things to say about my time in Boston. I have great relationships I built there.

— Gordon Hayward

The success of Boston's economy is intertwined with the health and well-being of every neighborhood.

— Michelle Wu

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

— Anonymous

“There are more people of Irish descent in Boston and surrounding New England than there are in Ireland.”

— Anonymous

I was unhappy for eight years in Boston but still put up great numbers.

— Manny Ramirez

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

— Thomas Menino

I mean, Boston is a great city. Winning is always No. 1.

— Xander Bogaerts

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

— Jenn Proske