The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell,… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story… — Sally Kellerman Copy Share Image
I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I encountered Newton when I was growing up, and it has kind of made me who I am, although I came to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is… — Brad Mehldau Copy Share Image
I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed… — Alex Newell Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too? — Mike Shannon Copy Share Image
The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to… — Callie Thorne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre… — Todd English Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.” — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business. — Kenneth Chenault Copy Share Image
