Brooklyn Quotes · Page 10

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in…

— Chuck Schumer

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was…

— Isaac Mizrahi

'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.”

— Kate Christensen

I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Hakeem Jeffries

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

— Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't…

— Betty Smith

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like…

— Larry Charles

“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the…

— Jacob M. Appel

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was…

— William Forsythe

My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and…

— Anonymous

I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this.…

— Sloane Crosley

I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide…

— Darynda Jones

I never aspired to the local political fiefdom thing that a lot of people ascribed me to. I saw myself as a…

— Al Sharpton

When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my…

— Chuck Berry

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

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small…

— Porter Robinson

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

— Anthony Bourdain

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of…

— Brian Flores

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

— Erik Larson

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

— Ben Howard

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid…

— Michael De Luca

You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the…

— Gutzon Borglum

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

— Mickey Rooney

“WE were on our way to Brooklyn to pick up an arm and see a man about a head.”

— Lisa Shearin

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

— Andrew Dice Clay

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in…

— David Plotz

Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.

— Peter Scolari