Quotes on Boston

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Author: Fred Allen

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Author: Thomas Appleton

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Author: Edward Bellamy

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

Author: Amar Bose

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

Author: Bill Bryson

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

If Ted Williams just tip his cap once he could be elected Mayor of Boston in five minutes.

Author: Eddie Collins

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Author: Godfried Danneels

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

Author: Todd English

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

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.

Author: Bryan Ferry

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

Author: Kevin Garnett

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

Author: Oliver Herford

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.

Author: Arthur Hiller

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

Author: Sally Kellerman

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

Author: Nancy Kerrigan

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.

Author: Craig Kilborn

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Author: William Leahy

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

Author: Robert Lowell

I'm a kid from Boston.

Author: Rob Mariano

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Author: Will McDonough

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

Author: Thomas Menino

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Author: Thomas Menino

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Author: Thomas Menino

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.

Author: Thomas Menino

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!

Author: Thomas Menino

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

Author: Thomas Menino

Boston is known for its innovation.

Author: Thomas Menino

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

Author: Merton Miller

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.

Author: Jonathan Richman

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!

Author: Joshua Slocum

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Author: Joshua Slocum

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

Author: Donnie Wahlberg

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

Author: Michael Welch

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

Author: Mark White