Boston Quotes · Page 22

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

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

— Carmelo Anthony

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air…

— Willa Cather

Philadelphia is a football town. Boston is a baseball town.

— Howie Long

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

— Paul Laffoley

I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have…

— Peter Menzel

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently…

— Jose Ferreira

It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one…

— Sasa Stanisic

It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't…

— Nat Hentoff

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

— Tom Brady

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

— Johnny Damon

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

— Gary Gulman

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed…

— Jonathan Tucker

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because…

— Edith Wharton

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan,…

— Paul Farmer

Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few…

— George Mason

I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.

— Jim Norton

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

— Howie Long

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of…

— Arne Glimcher

I love Boston; it's like Paris.

— Tyra Banks

No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the…

— Noam Chomsky

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

— Waite Hoyt

Boston is known for its innovation.

— Thomas Menino