Boston Quotes
312 Boston quotes by 249 unique authors
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What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
— William P. Leahy
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I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family…
— Ralph Bakshi
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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 district or great…
— Todd English
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I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.
— Matt LeBlanc
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So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I…
— Meredith Vieira
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
— Nancy Kerrigan
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Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children,…
— Thomas Menino
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The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
— Julia Ward Howe
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Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl…
— James Patterson
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Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the…
— Leonard Nimoy
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Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in…
— Gerard Way
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Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to…
— Michael Ondaatje
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When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the…
— Stephen Elop
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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,…
— Martina Navratilova
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t…
— Whitney M. Young
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Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false)
— Ezra Stiles
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I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to…
— Charlie Kaufman
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The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle…
— Mario Cuomo
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Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in…
— Kevin Nash
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area,…
— Amar Bose
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We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the…
— Amar Bose
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very…
— Martha C. Nussbaum
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I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired…
— James Fallows
Who Wrote These Boston Quotes
249 authors contributed a total of 312 Boston Quotes, led by these top contributors: