Boston Accent - Well-known Speakers Of/with The Boston Accent

Famous quotes containing the words well-known, speakers, boston and/or accent:

“The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls’ Nourishment.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

“I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)