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Quotes About Boston

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.
~ J. C. Bossidy
Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
~ David Walton
I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.
~ John Krasinski
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
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
~ Ben Affleck
There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.
~ Terry Francona
I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.
~ George Vecsey
I live in Boston so I'm used to small spaces.
~ Jonny Kim
I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it's not enough.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
then it was on to Boston and a big parade. "Finding this ceremony was not to be avoided though I had made every effort to do it," Washington recorded in his diary
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
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
When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.
~ Denis McDonough
I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else can I sit down for two hours with people who understand the challenge I face, daily, as a life-chronicler?
~ Nigel Hamilton
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
~ Andris Nelsons
Mondays through Thursdays, students and musicians had Tanglewood pretty much to themselves. Not so on the weekends, when concert-hungry trekkers from New York, Boston, and every place in between would descend on us.
~ Tim Page
President Franklin Pierce, determined to demonstrate the federal government's resolve to enforce the act, dispatched 2,000 soldiers to Boston to recapture a single fugitive.
~ Timothy Sandefur
most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.
~ Tom Standage
I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
~ Kevin James
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.
~ Rob Sheffield
Boston is an unbelievable city, and for any athlete looking to become involved in the community, this is the perfect place.
~ Danny Amendola
The readers of the Boston Evening TranscriptSway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.
~ T. S. Eliot
Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.
~ David Ortiz