Boston Quotes · Page 9

We believe in a Boston where housing is more than a commodity, it's our community.

— Marty Walsh

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

— Terry Francona

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

— Kevin Garnett

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

— Dash Mihok

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

— Mark Twain

It's only fair that Boston's success benefits all Boston's children.

— Marty Walsh

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

— Rachael MacFarlane

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

— Tom Scholz

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston…

— Arthur Hiller

In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging…

— Stephon Marbury

I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers…

— Andris Nelsons

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet…

— Errol Morris

I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it…

— Bobbi Gibb

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on…

— Julian Casablancas

I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading…

— Hanley Ramirez

Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and…

— Caroline Leavitt

I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in…

— Manny Ramirez

The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people…

— Bill O'Reilly

When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to…

— Tony Parker

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston…

— Ralph Bakshi

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have…

— Gregory Harrison

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like…

— Noam Chomsky

Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.

— Paul Pierce

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We made Boston a global headquarters city - a world leader in innovation, life sciences, finance, and law.

— Marty Walsh

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

— Micky Ward

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

— Ian Rush

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

— Gary Gulman

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

— Julia Ward Howe

A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.

— John Pinette

I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.

— Sam Seder

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

— Eli Roth

I really love Glasgow. It reminds me of Boston in parts.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

— Ben Affleck

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

— David Sirota

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

— Nat Hentoff