310 Quotes About Boston
- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.
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- Author J.S. Mason
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like a blustered Bostonian sheep blubbering about being sheared at the ba ba
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- Author Thomas M. Cirignano
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Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
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- Author Hester Fox
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A place from away from society and all its ugly gossip and clicking tongues.
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- Author John Updike
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Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.
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- Author Janet Benge
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John [Adams] supposed there were two reasons why the British had gone after John Hancock. First, they wanted to make an example out of him, showing what would happen to anyone, no matter how rich, who dared to defy the new Townshend Act. Second, John Hancock was the biggest financial support of men like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. In fact, John Adams was reasonably sure that Sam Adams had no money whatsoever and that John Hancock was paying all his bills.
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- Author Josiah P. Mendum
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[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.
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- Author Ogden Nash
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At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South StationAnd not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.
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- Author Adriana Mather
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When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend to hers.
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