Boston Quotes

"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free"

"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"

Howie Carr, Author

"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston"

Thomas Menino, Politician

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

Thomas Menino, Politician

"2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh"

Thomas Gold Appleton, Critic

"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, to grow and pursue dreams"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

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

Johnny Damon, Athlete

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

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"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, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!"

Joshua Slocum, Explorer

"Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up"

Janeane Garofalo, Comedian

"We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care"

Shane Leslie, Diplomat

"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us"

Kevin Garnett, Athlete

"I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

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

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"If Ted Williams just tip his cap once he could be elected Mayor of Boston in five minutes"

Eddie Collins, Athlete

"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. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar"

John Krasinski, Actor

"In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice"

Charlie Haden, Musician

"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage"

Arthur Hiller, Director

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

Bernie Worrell, Musician

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