Brooklyn Quotes · Page 15

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

— Barbra Streisand

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

— David Blaine

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so…

— Marielle Heller

I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider…

— Julie White

It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave…

— Erykah Badu

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York -…

— Fran Lebowitz

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young…

— Lana Parrilla

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the…

— Sydney Schanberg

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

Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;…

— Robert Wagner

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

— Joe Flaherty

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

— Allen Ginsberg

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

— Nas

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the…

— Michael K. Williams

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of…

— Noah Baumbach

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…

— Lev Grossman

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

— Dave East

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

— David Beckham

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

— Kemp Muhl

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are…

— Ira Sachs

They gave me my chance, and I'm forever indebted to Brooklyn.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I…

— Eddie Griffin

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the…

— Jerry Doyle

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense.…

— El-P