Boston Quotes - Page 7

• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Giving

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  East, Lace, Brahmins

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Circles, Boards, Economic

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• Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New - New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.

  Joseph Cooper

  New York, Guy, September 11

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• If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Feelings, Valleys, Littles

  "Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston" by Leena Rao, techcrunch.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I'm personally asking each and every single Boston resident to look after their neighbor.

  Marty Walsh

  Looks, Asking, Neighbor

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• Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in Boston, it usually doesn't happen. We went over to England and it happened at almost every show. I don't really enjoy any kind of invasion of privacy like that I guess. Grabbing my package is obviously a total invasion of privacy I'm not into that at all.

  Gerard Way

  People, Invasion, England

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• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

  Douglas Preston

  Retirement, Moving, Character

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• This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

  David Ortiz

  Red, Today, Jersey

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• When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.

  Tony Parker

  Workout, Team, League

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• Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Growing Up, Inspiration

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

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• Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

  Ben Affleck

  Inspiring, Our Love, Beloved

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2013

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• My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

  Matt Damon

  Inspiring, Prayer, Lost Love

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• Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

  Nicki Minaj

  Auctions, Clubs, Causes

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  Amby Burfoot

  Presidential, Important, Events

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• An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

  George Wein

  Kids, Years, New Orleans

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• And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here's what I know - these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Blood, Two

  "Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart salute Boston, mock 'maniacs'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Cities, People

  President Obama's Address Following Boston Explosions, www.npr.org. April 15, 2013.

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  T. S. Eliot

  New York, Self, Rivers

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• I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Nice, California, Cold

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• I know from my own life that you can’t move forward unless you reach out and deal honestly with the past. The truth is that when it comes to race and class, Boston has a lot of unfinished business. We must not be afraid to talk about it.

  Marty Walsh

  Moving, Past, Class

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• So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?

  Meredith Vieira

  Running, New York, Thinking

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