Brooklyn Quotes · Page 2

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

— Keeth Smart

“I hate Brooklyn.”

— Cassandra Clare

There's a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.

— Finn Wolfhard

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

— Patrick Ewing

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

— Tony Visconti

I love it here in Brooklyn, and I want to play here a long time.

— Caris LeVert

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

— David Blaine

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

— Spike Lee

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life…

— Woody Allen

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

— Zoe Kravitz

I really love fighting in Brooklyn and at Barclays Center. The fans in Brooklyn always show me a lot of love.

— Jermall Charlo

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

— Walter Cronkite

I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play…

— Brendan Dooling

I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

— Anna Ewers

It's great to be headlining a big show with my twin brother in Brooklyn.

— Jermall Charlo

The only people who live in Brooklyn are people who can't afford the East Village.

— Gavin McInnes

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

— Eddie Griffin

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department…

— Ad Reinhardt

I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle…

— Nia Long

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up.…

— Talib Kweli

You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck…

— Marky Ramone

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would…

— Julian Casablancas

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy…

— Amandla Stenberg

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go…

— Clive Davis

The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no…

— Edwin Diamond

I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House,…

— Rick Riordan

“I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they…

— David Levithan

If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised.…

— Rick Riordan

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay…

— Michael Chabon

I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in…

— Andrew Dice Clay

“The full moon rose above the harbor as brightly lit tour boats skimmed along the black water, the brilliant cluster of lower…

— Andrew Cotto

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it…

— Betty Smith

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

— Barbra Streisand

My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.

— Sergino Dest

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

— Jimmy Iovine

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

— Anne Sexton