Brooklyn Quotes · Page 7

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

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

— Michael Pitt

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

— D'Angelo Russell

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

— Arthur Nersesian

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

— Larry King

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid…

— Rudy Giuliani

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.

— Maverick Carter

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn…

— Kehinde Wiley

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,…

— Dan Rosensweig

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world…

— Karan Mahajan

My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how…

— Naomi Wolf

I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses,…

— William Klein

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation…

— Jerry Doyle

The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There's a time and a…

— Tim Heidecker

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if…

— Demian Bichir

I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn…

— Nick Swardson

My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a…

— Donald Trump

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold…

— Anne Sexton

Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make…

— Alex Stapleton

As the Representative for Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn, communities that are both extremely sensitive to tolling, I'm greatly disappointed in the…

— Nicole Malliotakis

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend…

— Maurice Ashley

I played tennis at underneath - Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side.

— Callum Turner

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from,…

— Howard Schultz

When you're from Brooklyn, you've got to rep, and you've got to perform, like it's your last fight on earth.

— Daniel Jacobs

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not…

— Astro

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

— Joe Flaherty

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

— David Meltzer

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd…

— GZA

A lot of people in barber shops all over Brooklyn talk about Paulie Malignaggi v. Zab Judah.

— Paulie Malignaggi

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

— Colson Whitehead

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

— Keri Russell

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

— Sandrine Holt

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

— Jessica Williams

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

— Stephanie Beatriz

Just playing in Brooklyn, playing in New York is such an amazing experience - it's something that can be so special.

— Brook Lopez

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

— Hakeem Jeffries