{"quotes":[{"text":"Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.","author":"Thomas M. Cirignano","tags":["boston","boston-harbor","boston-history","bully","bullying","castle-island","cirignano","discrimination","dorchester","drinking-and-driving","fitting-in","forced-busing","gas-shortage","irish-mob","italian","memoir","murder","nonfiction","osracism","south-boston","southie","true-crime","whitey-bulger"],"id":1557,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Cirignano"},{"text":"And this is good old Boston  The home of the bean and the cod  Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots  And the Cabots talk only to God.","author":"J. C. Bossidy","tags":["boston"],"id":14821,"author_id":"J.+C.+Bossidy"},{"text":"In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["boston","new-york-city","philadelphia"],"id":65714,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed from the rafters, and by this point there would be tears rolling down our cheeks and we'd want to kill.","author":"Bill Walton","tags":["basketball","bill-walton","boston","celtics","k-c-jones","pride"],"id":80176,"author_id":"Bill+Walton"},{"text":"Then here's to the City of Boston  The town of the cries and the groans  Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks  And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.","author":"Franklin P. Adams","tags":["boston"],"id":147070,"author_id":"Franklin+P.+Adams"},{"text":"Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder.","author":"Helene Munson","tags":["boston","cambridge","german","harvard","non-fiction","relocation","self-help","travel"],"id":148214,"author_id":"Helene+Munson"},{"text":"In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.","author":"Tom Brady","tags":["love","great","boston "],"id":170425,"author_id":"Tom+Brady"},{"text":"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.","author":"William F. Buckley","tags":["people","first","boston "],"id":177077,"author_id":"William+F.+Buckley"},{"text":"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.","author":"Jack Valenti","tags":["woman","american","boston "],"id":182303,"author_id":"Jack+Valenti"},{"text":"[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . To 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.","author":"Josiah P. Mendum","tags":["atheism","bigotry","boston","enlightenment","memorial","paine-hall","praise","superstition"],"id":319026,"author_id":"Josiah+P.+Mendum"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}