Boston Quotes - Page 3

• So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Couple, Father

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• 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.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Symphony, Sound

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• I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

  Barbara Walters

  Achievement, Kind, Accents

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Party, Symphony, Giving

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Sick, World

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• There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

  Amar Bose

  Gone, Mit, Half

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, People, Different

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• A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Years, Guests, Restaurants

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Community, Together

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• 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.

  Todd English

  Cities, Theatre, Different

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• Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Night, Firsts

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

  Wilford Brimley

  New York, Believe, Land

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Lonely, New York

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

  Kenny Wormald

  Careers, Guy, Acting

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• Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Travel, New York, Home

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• I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Pregnancy, Use, Sacred

  "Gisele Bündchen: Earth Mother". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.vogue.com. March 15, 2010.

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• A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Salmon, Green

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.540, Library of America

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• When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Kings, Teaching, Air

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Lessons, Keyboards

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Memorable, Moments

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• 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.

  Bryan Ferry

  New York, Wish, Chicago

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• 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

  Kids, Hockey, People

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• I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but I gotta represent Boston and the Red Sox in every way that I do outside this game. ... Like I said I get paid to play baseball no [matter] where I go to play I still gotta go and perform even if I like it or not.

  Manny Ramirez

  Baseball, Fun, Games

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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