Boston Commons Quotes

#1. There was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you.

Katherine Paterson

#2. If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Elvis Presley

#3. There is music in the cacophony of life.

Saru Singhal

#4. Because Ali did not want to see the deep pools of his kind teacher's eyes and fall into them. He didn't know how to swim.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#5. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Poe Ballantine

#6. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Kevin Costner

#7. Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

Jeffrey Sweet

#8. Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?"
"It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.

John Green

#9. If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

Jim Rohn

#10. Your children are perfume of your love.

Kishore Bansal

#11. I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

John Keats