Boston Quotes

Boston Quote of the day

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

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.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

The marathon can humble you.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

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 Boston Tea Party.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

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 disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

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

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

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

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

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 walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

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

In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

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 pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I'm a kid from Boston.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

As a matter of fact I don't know of one artist as long as I've been alive that they put in regular rotation in Boston who wasn't already on a major label with a huge deal behind them.