Brooklyn Quotes · Page 5

I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

— Sasha Velour

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,

— Al Smith

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

I feel cool when I say I live in Brooklyn.

— Peter Hedges

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

— Finn Wolfhard

“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

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 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 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

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

White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but…

— Big Daddy Kane

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that…

— James Ellroy

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother…

— Sanford I. Weill

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met…

— Lana Parrilla

“Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on…

— Imogen Binnie

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to…

— Patty Smyth

I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a…

— Sharon Van Etten

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Jackee Harry

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

— Al Sharpton

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

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Larry Charles

“His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk…

— Raymond Chandler

There are definitely die-hard fans. That's one thing about people from Brooklyn: they're very loyal, die-hard, believe in their team.

— Kemba Walker

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

— Peter Scolari

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they…

— Don Lemon

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to…

— Mimi Sheraton

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

— Gutzon Borglum

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

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

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

— Lisa Shearin

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

— Brian Flores