Top 1200 Boston University Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.
I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.
I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the best and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and weeks after the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, and we also see it in many other ways every day.
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.
When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.
I decided to go back home and try to enroll in the University of Houston.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.
As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'
One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.
Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.
A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.
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.
In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.
When I first ran for City Council in 2013, I was told over and over again that I would likely lose, and for reasons beyond my control: I was too young, not born in Boston, Asian American, female.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.
I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.
I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.
When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
I have a U.P. connection as my mother had graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University.
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish Catholic family secrets - is there anything better?
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish.
You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
