Boston Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boston Busy Cities Cities at night City life First Principles Firsts Intellectual Moral Nursery Principal Trifles
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them.… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
I encountered Newton when I was growing up, and it has kind of made me who I am, although I came to love Boston.… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them.… — Eric Lefkofsky Copy Share Image
I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played,… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket. — Nat Faxon Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image