Common Boston Quotes & Sayings

Do not eat of this world,
she warned as I left,
unless you are willing to suffer. — Justen Ahren

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. — James Spader

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it. — Frederick Lenz

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can. — Steve Nash

Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses.
Rejoice, little book!
For on that day, we will be free — Joanna Russ

So, tell me what my fists keep writing, my fingers, they open up like gates when I write ... — Anis Mojgani

I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.' — Tasha Smith

There are no ghosts; only the dust in the light, our breath and the wind in the quiet, and the feeling that something, or a lot of somethings, are watching us. So maybe there are ghosts after all. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. — Ron Chernow

When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get. — Facundo Pieres

I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice
who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal
wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?. — Charles Schumer

Learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God. — E. Bernard Jordan

Writing is acting on paper. — Lydia Anne Klima

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that. — Tom Brady

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism. — Raymond Kelly

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services. — Hamadoun Toure

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing. — John Steinbeck

I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage." — Henry Rollins

It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience. — Sigmund Freud