Boston Quotes · Page 6

Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things.

— Danny Wood

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

— Joe Biden

“Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?”

— Red Auerbach

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

— Nat Hentoff

I've come to Boston many times, my family has come here, and it's been great.

— P.K. Subban

I love Boston. I love the city. I think we have the best fans in the world.

— Zdeno Chara

I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

— Kenny Wormald

My plan for Boston's future begins in our schools - all of our schools.

— Marty Walsh

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or…

— Anonymous

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so…

— Rob Zombie

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland…

— Henry Hampton

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You…

— Sophia Amoruso

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I…

— Will McDonough

“If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.”

— David McCullough

Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in…

— Mark Wahlberg

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got…

— Nancy Dubuc

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats…

— Eli Roth

“When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters…

— Dennis Lehane

“In crew, contempt is important. In Boston, Boston University and Northeastern crew are treated with contempt by the college up the river.…

— Lisa Birnbach

There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not…

— Noam Chomsky

Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the…

— James Burrows

Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New -…

— Joseph Cooper

It's nice to be back in front of the fans and being in Boston.

— Avery Bradley

I cannot wait to get to Boston and start to practice with the rest of the team in pursuit of a championship.

— Jermaine O'Neal

There's no ill will on my end for anybody within the Boston organization or players.

— Gordon Hayward

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

— Jimmy Fallon

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

— Adoniram Judson

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

— Joe Biden

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

— Edward Bellamy

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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

— John Pinette

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

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

— Sam Seder

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

— David Sirota