Boston Quotes

Today I prayed for Boston, for America, my home away from home. Today, I realized how lucky we Sri Lankans are to have peace in our country. How I feel today, hearing of the bombs going off in the city brings back memories of how I used to feel four years ago in Sri Lanka when the LTTE was setting off bombs all around Colombo. That feeling I used to get when I hear about a bomb blast, the goosebumps, the school evacuation drills, the breaking news footage, and most of all, that fear we Sri Lankans used to feel, every second of everyday, it all came back to me today. Thank you God for bringing peace to my country, look after America the way you did Sri Lanka.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

~ John Updike

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

~ Josiah P. Mendum

His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed from the rafters, and by this point there would be tears rolling down our cheeks and we'd want to kill.

~ Bill Walton

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

~ Red Auerbach

When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. 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 amid all that noise, nothing is louder than the silence of the missing child. It’s a silence that’s two and a half to three feet tall, and you feel it at your hip and hear it rising up from the floorboards, shouting to you from corners and crevices and the emotionless face of a doll left on the floor by the bed. “It’s a silence that’s different from the one left at funerals and wakes. The silence of the dead carries with it a sense of finality; it’s a silence you know you must get used to. 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.“The silence of the dead says, Goodbye. “The silence of the missing says, Find me.

~ Dennis Lehane

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

~ Thomas M. Cirignano

readers are saying;“A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ...” Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer.“A great piece of work

~ Keith Guernsey

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

~ Mark Twain

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

~ Tom Brady

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

~ Mary Lambert

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

~ William F. Buckley

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

~ Jack Valenti