Boston Quotes
312 Boston quotes by 249 unique authors
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Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in…
— George V. Higgins
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What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man!…
— CM Punk
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Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We…
— Joe Perry
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They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage…
— Jonathan Richman
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Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in…
— George Mason
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In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national…
— Thomas Menino
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price,…
— Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut,…
— Joshua Slocum
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To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the…
— Adelle Davis
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The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally…
— Mike Huckabee
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Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take…
— Joey McIntyre
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
— Ben Affleck
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My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in…
— Matt Damon
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Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a…
— Joshua Slocum
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My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
— Leonard Nimoy
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Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.
— Nicki Minaj
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Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
— Thomas Menino
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We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire…
— Barack Obama
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This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We…
— Amby Burfoot
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
— George Wein
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
— George Santayana
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And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate…
— Stephen Colbert
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Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and…
— Barack Obama
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We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.
— Joe Biden
Who Wrote These Boston Quotes
249 authors contributed a total of 312 Boston Quotes, led by these top contributors: