Boston Southie Quotes & Sayings

All I'm focusing on is pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down. — Stephen King

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one. — Tana French

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest. — Joseph Smith Jr.

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation ... that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'. — Hardin B. Jones

Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it. — Alexandra Engellmann

For decades Southie had been immigrant Irish against the world, fighting first a losing battle againsnt shameful discrimination from the Yankee merchhants who had run Boston for centuries and then another one against mindless bureaucrats and an obdurate federal judge who imposed school busing on the "town" that hated outsiders to begin with. Both clashes were the kind of righteous fight that left residents the way they liked to be: bloodied but unbowed. The shared battles reaffirmed a view of life: never trust outsiders and never forget where you come from. — Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

I may have at some point referred to him as a douche nozzle. — Hannah Harrington

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — Valentino Garavani

But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see. — Edward Abbey

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? ... A gang is a group of men ... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy ... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom. — Saint Augustine

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral. — Bil Keane

So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again. — Edward Hirsch