Brooklyn Quotes · Page 6

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

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

— Shannon Briggs

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm…

— Pee Wee Reese

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of…

— David Byrne

You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios.

— Peter Hedges

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

— Brandy Norwood

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

— Judy Sheindlin

It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a…

— Scott Avett

Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when…

— DJ Premier

Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in…

— Paul Dano

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we…

— Dominic Chianese

I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV…

— Adam Davidson

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you…

— Tracy Morgan

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

— Mac DeMarco

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

— Helen Hayes

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in…

— Buddy Hackett

It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this…

— Ariana Grande

As far as the lawsuit, yes, when I was very young, I went into my father's company, had a real estate company…

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Thomas Bidegain

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

— Alice McDermott

I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You…

— Jackee Harry

“We sleep and nap in bed--my two piled up mattresses on the bare wooden floor. We are silent, dreamy. She surveys my…

— Frederic Tuten

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care…

— Nicole Polizzi

Brooklyn just got that energy to me that's so hip-hop and so New York City. You know, New York City is the…

— Statik Selektah

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

— Harry Frankfurt

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

— Angela Yee

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

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

— Theophilus London

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

— Marianne Moore

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.

— Libba Bray

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

— Truman Capote

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

— Betty Smith

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

— Peter Criss

At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

— Paul Pierce

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt