Boston Quotes - Page 15

• The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

  Mario Cuomo

  Children, Pain, Struggle

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Acting, Film, Program

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• Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

  Kevin Nash

  Dream, Real, Sunday

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven editions of a print run of about 400. So the first print run out of Boston for a first book of poems was 400 for a country that had fifty million people in it. Now a first print run for a first book is maybe 2,000? So that's a five-time increase in the expectation of readership. Probably the audience is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1900, if you just took that one example.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Running, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

  Nat Hentoff

  Party, Son, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

  Diana Ross

  New York, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil - 9/11, the Ft. Hood shooting, the Boston Bombing, the San Bernardino attack, the Orlando attack - is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants. Clearly, new screening procedures are needed.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Islamic, Common Threads

  Donald Trump's Speech On Fighting Terrorism, www.politico.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

  Nat Hentoff

  Latin, School

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Jock Semple said "Oh the women ran well today the Boston Marathon and they deserve to be in the race." I had to laugh. I said "Well it took us five years but anyway, we're here." It pretty much changed everything.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, Years, Laughing

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Bills

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eight, Years, Half

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.

  Marty Walsh

  Senior, Cities, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Play, Piano

  "Interview With Gerard From My Chemical Romance". Interview with Mike T., www.metalunderground.com. June 11, 2004.

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• There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

  George W. Bush

  People, Want, Come Up

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• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, New York, Crazy

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• 1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, Changed, Millions

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• Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock Semple and I became very good friends. That gave me a whole new perspective on forgiveness.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Good Friend, Race, Perspective

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

  Kathrine Switzer

  New York, Next Day, Jocks

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Athlete, Two, Race

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Opportunity, Years, Games

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• [Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

  Errol Morris

  Wife, Portraits, Elsa

  Source: collider.com

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• Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Race, Years, Stressed

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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