Boston Quotes · Page 8

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

— Josh Gondelman

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Fred Allen

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

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Susan Estrich

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Jim Lee

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because…

— Howie Carr

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even…

— Shaun King

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the…

— Amar Bose

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus,…

— John Updike

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we…

— Thomas Menino

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies,…

— Zubin Mehta

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with…

— Anthony Trollope

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled…

— Jonathan Carroll

“Sometimes I miss Boston', I said. It was a timid confession. I missed it every day - its space, its familiar streets…

— Paul Theroux

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

— Paul Laffoley

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a…

— Horace Walpole

Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to…

— David Ortiz

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama…

— John Steinbeck

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also…

— Godfried Danneels

In the US you have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami and dozens of other cities; a few of them…

— Michael Bierut

We're ready to be a Boston that doesn't push people out, but welcomes all who call our city home.

— Michelle Wu

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

— Matt LeBlanc

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

— Michael Welch

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

— John Williams

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

— Roxane Gay

This is a bad day for Boston, but I think if we pull together we'll get through it.

— Thomas Menino

I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.

— Maura Tierney

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

— Bernie Worrell

My parents had a Boston terrier, but we never became friends.

— Amanda Blake

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

— Lincoln Steffens

Boston is an amazing city, man. All the sports here, all they do is win.

— Xander Bogaerts

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look…

— David Walton

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

— Rafael Palmeiro

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

— John Krasinski

People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

— Dan Gilbert