Boston Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  New York, Philadelphia, America

  "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" (1895) See Disraeli 10

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• 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.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, People, United States

  "Goldstein: How Universities Killed Free Speech" by Lorrie Goldstein, torontosun.com. November 22, 2017.

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• The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Spring, Bad Day, Being In Love

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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

  Henry Winkler

  Independence, Enough

  Source: laist.com

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

  Julia Ward Howe

  Oasis, People, Desert

  Julia Ward Howe (2004). “The Hermaphrodite”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Dream, Children, Cities

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• We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

  Joe Biden

  America, Overcoming, Lines

  "'We are America, we own the finish line,' Biden says at Boston bombing memorial" by Josh Levs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2014.

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• 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

  Smart, People, World

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• I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sunday, Cities, Made

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

  Marty Walsh

  Diversity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Johnny Damon

  Long, Hopefully, Long Time

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

  Thomas Menino

  Journey, Land, Six

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• We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cows, Wells, Surveyors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

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• I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Letter to Groucho Marx, 12 June 1953

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• The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Ocean, Frozen

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• 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

  Years, Covering, Crime

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• A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

  Thomas Gold Appleton

  Men, Wind, East

  Attributed

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

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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

  Bill Bryson

  Childhood, Insane, Toys

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.154, VNR AG

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

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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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 Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Tea

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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

  George Santayana

  Cities, Intellectual, Firsts

  "Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts".

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• A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Years, Three

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• I'm a kid from Boston.

  Rob Mariano

  Kids

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

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Years, Nine

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