Brooklyn Quotes · Page 6

When I found out that I'd been traded to Brooklyn - it was pretty much the best feeling in the world.

— Jahlil Okafor

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they…

— Moby

It's impressive, just driving around Brooklyn, seeing the fans wearing the logo. They've really embraced us.

— Brook Lopez

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to…

— Jo Nesbo

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly,…

— Paul Auster

I am made in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and I am definitely in the heavyweight-title house.

— Shannon Briggs

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars,…

— Neil Sedaka

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

— Star Jones

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am…

— Jonathan Ames

“The streets were awash with blues and grays – suspended in the air, bouncing off buildings, reflecting off car windows – as…

— Abby Slovin

I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and…

— Pablo Schreiber

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor…

— Helen Hayes

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better…

— Mac DeMarco

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind…

— Tony Judt

If there's any credence to the guy who wrote 'Drones Over Blkyn' a year before drones were flying over Brooklyn, then listen…

— El-P

I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and…

— Malcolm Goodwin

MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series…

— Michaela Angela Davis

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more…

— Howard Schultz

There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no…

— Alex Stapleton

There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a…

— Patti Smith

The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed…

— Wentworth Miller

My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've…

— Bruno Mars

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of…

— Alice McDermott

The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar…

— Thomas Bidegain

I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn.

— Paul Pierce

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

— Theophilus London

Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!

— Michael Pitt

“In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.”

— Arthur Nersesian

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

— D'Angelo Russell

I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

— Larry King

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

— Woody Allen

I'm a Brooklyn kid. So for me, rap and all the other forms of music that I participate in, we catch a…

— Saint Jhn

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would…

— Raquel Zimmermann

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

— David Beckham

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told…

— Harry Frankfurt

Play the world, shake them all. Now it's all grizzly, keep Brooklyn now I'm all.

— Pac Div

I was conscious of being a British actor doing a ridiculous Brooklyn voice, so I toned it down.

— Harris Dickinson

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

— Eliza Hittman

I used to drink soda everyday, Hi-C everyday, and Hawaiian punch. That's how I grew up in Brooklyn.

— Angela Yee

My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.

— Jacqueline Woodson