Boston Quotes · Page 9

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

— Manny Ramirez

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

— Xander Bogaerts

I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there.

— David Walton

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

— David Ortiz

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

— George Wein

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

— Jeremy Strong

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

— Christopher Walken

“God made women too beautiful and their memories too long.”

— David B. Lentz

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who…

— Anne Sexton

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years…

— Eliza Dushku

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

— Iris Chang

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be…

— James Patterson

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

There are some smart people here in Boston. We're a sports city here and everybody loves competition. Esports is another outlet for…

— Gordon Hayward

Even throughout college and post-college, I've always been incredibly hyperactive. Even at Boston College, I was involved in so many different organizations…

— Eric Nam

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is…

— T. S. Eliot

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A…

— Tom Scholz

What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit -…

— Patti LuPone

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and…

— John W. Henry

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited in me an excitement that…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the…

— Noam Chomsky

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know?…

— Meredith Vieira

There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a…

— Charlie Pierce

I had never been to Boston before shooting the 'Chasing Life' pilot in 2012. I love it there!

— Italia Ricci

Boston is awesome, man. It's a rush to go out there and perform.

— Booker T

I love Boston and I always will. I'll always have terrific memories and great fans here.

— Johnny Damon

In Boston, we don't lead by ourselves. We lead as the capital city and economic engine of a great Commonwealth.

— Marty Walsh

“You're so pretty, Elizabeth,... Why, I'd never have taken you for a spinster.”

— Debra Holland

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

— Josh Gondelman

I love Boston. I come here all the time and play pick-up ice hockey with friends in Concord and Bedford.

— William Quigley

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

— Maya Angelou

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

— Jason Bay

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

— Fred Allen

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

— Susan Estrich

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

— Sarah Caldwell

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

— Jim Lee

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

— Julian Casablancas

I found a place in Boston, a home in Boston, and I'm pretty happy here.

— J. D. Martinez