Famous boston quotations

Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. Join Goodreads. Quotes tagged as "boston" Showing of Cirignano, The Constant Outsider. In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? She will not bend to your will; you must bend to hers. They are like people who keep telling me, 'You have to see Hamilton! Though I have subsequently seen, "Hamilton" and it's excellent. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters from both TV and print—create a lot of energy and noise, a sense of communal intensity, of fierce and shared dedication to a task.

But the silence of a missing child is not something you want to get used to; you refuse to accept it, and so it screams at you. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice. I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting.

That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this. Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. I need to be gone before she gets up. Seeing her will only make it harder to stay away from her.

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. I grew up a Red Sox fan. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives.

They feel they can do anything. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half. This year, all 36, of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella. You're the time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog!

You're a dynasty. In Boston the night comes down with an incredibly heavy, small-town finality. The cows come home; the chickens go to roost; the meadow is dark. Nearly every Bostonian is in his house or in someone else's house, dining at the home board, enjoying domestic and social privacy.

I see a great many barrels and fig-drums, piles of wood for umbrella-sticks, blocks of granite and ice, great heaps of goods, and the means of packing and conveying them, much wrapping-paper and twine, many crates and hogsheads and trucks, and that is Boston.

The more barrels, the more Boston. The museums and scientific societies and libraries are accidental. They gather around the sands to save carting.

It is true, a poor literary man could not earn his salt, or more than that, out of pure literary labor in Boston; but then he couldn't do it in New York, unless he turned journalist. The people of Boston are full-blooded readers, appreciative, trained.