Brooklyn Quotes · Page 9

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

— Bob Dylan

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

— Rene Balcer

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me…

— Tracy Morgan

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

— Michael K. Williams

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a…

— Jared Kushner

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

— Jonathan Franzen

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

— Gregory Pardlo

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in…

— Chris Mullin

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

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

— Lana Parrilla

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…

— Kehinde Wiley

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan… Brooklyn might sometimes also…

— Jonathan Lethem

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw…

— Diego Della Valle

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to…

— Tom Robbins

Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both -…

— Jimmy Iovine

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good…

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Maurice Ashley

Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked…

— Anne Heche

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

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

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

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

— Anne Sexton

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent…

— Scott Westerfeld

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

I was going to different neighborhoods around Brooklyn battling cats back in - this started in '82, so that's like eighth grade.…

— Big Daddy Kane

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

— Lena Dunham

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

— Allen Ginsberg

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

— Arthur Schwartz

“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.”

— Cat Agonis

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

— Ernie Harwell

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

— David Wilkerson

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million…

— Richard Jeni

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

— Alice Hoffman

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

— Joe Harris

Maybe I can become an all-rookie, but first I have to get minutes to play for Brooklyn.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

— Joe Harris

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

— Anonymous

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

— Alek Wek

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

— Saoirse Ronan

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

— Barbara Boxer