Boston Quotes

"In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series"

Craig Kilborn, Entertainer

"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 even though I was underage"

Jonathan Richman, Musician

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr"

Marcel Dionne, Athlete

"There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no"

Connie Francis, Musician

"I'm a kid from Boston"

Rob Mariano, Celebrity

"When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet"

Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity

"Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at"

Peter Oliver, Artist

"In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building"

Michael Welch, Actor

"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

"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh"

Thomas Gold Appleton, Critic

"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

"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

"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

"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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