Quotes having the keyword Boston
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
by Thomas Menino (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: academic, blueprint, boston, brought, business, care, city, community, comprehensive, develop, disparities, eliminating, ethnic, experts, health, institutions, racial , together In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
by Thomas Menino (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: boston, city, community, crime, established, fighting, introduced, model, national, our, policing, preventing, reversed, strategy, threatened, tide , violent Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.
by Thomas Menino (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: boston, energy, greater, historic, our, propel, shared, toward, us, use, vision , year Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
by Thomas Menino (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: am, announce, boston, committee, convention, fund, host, million, neighborhoods, pleased, secured , tonight I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
by Merton Miller (Economist, American , born in 1923) keywords: born, boston, child, joel, massachusetts, may, miller, only , sylvia My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
by George J. Mitchell (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: after, area, birth, boston, died, either, father, his, immigrants, ireland, knew, mother, never, orphanages, orphaned, parents, placed, shortly, siblings, son, states, sure, united , were So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
by George J. Mitchell (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: adopted, boston, childless, couple, elderly, father, gave, grew, him, maine, married, met, mitchell, mother, moved, name, orphanage, then , up I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
by Rick Moody (Novelist, American , born in 1961) keywords: am, back, boston, century, england, fact, finish, genealogical, historical, library, lineage, new, now, right, seventeenth, tracing, trying, up, where , work Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.
by Peter Oliver (Artist, English , born in 1908) keywords: almost, any, arrive, beyond, boston, conceive, description, ear, entered, ever, exaggeration, eye, hath, heard, heart, here, into, men, nor, our, seen, situation, such , without They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
by Jonathan Richman (Musician, American , born in 1951) keywords: amazing, backstage, boston, chain, even, events, got, hang, out, party, played, tea, them, though, through , underage I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
by Oscar Robertson (Athlete, American , born in 1938) keywords: being, bigger, bird, boston, championship, johnson, lakers, larry, lot, magic, nature, over, same, team, teams, than, thing, think, two , years My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
by Joshua Slocum (Explorer, Canadian , born in 1844) keywords: afloat, also, best, better, boston, condition, did, drop, her, leak, long, nut, sailed, she, ship, sound, still, than, tight , voyage Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
by Joshua Slocum (Explorer, Canadian , born in 1844) keywords: actually, boston, crew, even, flesh, gained, had, many, more, pound, profited, sailed, than, voyage, ways, weighed , well In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
by Donnie Wahlberg (Actor, American , born in 1969) keywords: boston, freshman, high, only, program, public, school, theatre, went , year In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
by Michael Welch (Actor, American , born in 1987) keywords: autonomous, boston, building, gone, high, large, same, schools, smaller , within After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
by Mark White (Musician , born in 1961) keywords: after, attend, boston, conservatory, couple, england, lessons, moved, new, occasional, pass , years I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
by Bernie Worrell (Musician, American , born in 1944) keywords: before, boston, conservatory, england, got, julliard, keyboard, lessons, music, new , private