Boston Quotes
312 Boston quotes by 249 unique authors
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Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that…
— Ilona Andrews
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I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed…
— Kathrine Switzer
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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
— Mark Twain
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He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't…
— Patricia Briggs
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My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just…
— Ally Carter
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
— Mark Twain
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I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the…
— Arne Glimcher
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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something…
— Bill Simmons
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I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox…
— Julian Casablancas
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
— John Williams
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When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House…
— John Williams
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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered…
— Charlie Pierce
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I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.
— Jim Lee
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
— Nat Faxon
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I…
— Zubin Mehta
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I love Boston.
— William Quigley
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It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those,…
— Clinton Sparks
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
— Waite Hoyt
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and…
— Waite Hoyt
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam,…
— Alice Morse Earle
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My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston…
— Joan Cusack
Who Wrote These Boston Quotes
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