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Quotes About Boston

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I went up there it was with one goal was to win a championship. Obviously that didn't happen but I don't have one bad thing to say about my time in Boston.
~ Al Horford
Boston has some of the best fans in any sport. They are very knowledgeable. They understand me. I was loved, embraced, and supported; what more can you ask for as an athlete?
~ Robert Parish
I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'
~ Josh Gondelman
In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The people that pulled me off that ground, who pulled me out. Those are my heroes. The police. The paramedics. Those are the true heroes.
~ Jeff Bauman
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
~ Gary Burton
No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.
~ Tom Scholz
I've been surprised by Austin. I had a cowboy image of the place. It's a pretty sophisticated city - in some ways, more sophisticated than Boston. And there's a lighter feel to the place. It's very good for my spirits.
~ Tim O'Brien
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
~ Rob Zombie
When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.
~ Laura van den Berg
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
~ Thomas Gold Appleton
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
~ Willa Cather
I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
~ Fred Allen
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
~ Anthony Trollope
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
~ Bernie Worrell
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
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.
~ Will Schwalbe
Incidentally the squires scrambled in Boston for the state funds which might be distributed among their banks as patronage. They asked little else. Postmasters and the court house officials were of the lower orders. But the squires supported them and required a sort of political military service from them. Thus the squirearchy reigned feudally in a capitalistic democracy
~ William Allen White
His only indulgence was the stereo system: Mitsubishi receiver and CD player, Boston Acoustic speakers.
~ William Bernhardt
the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic
~ William C. Davis
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
~ Raymond Chandler
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
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
~ Rafael Palmeiro
When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.
~ Luis Tiant