Brooklyn Quotes · Page 5

I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn.

— LIZ

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

— Maurice Sendak

Di first youth sofi a bring. Dat a mi baby madda a Brooklyn.

— Vybz Kartel

I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.

— Rick Riordan

I finally feel like I have an NBA home in Brooklyn.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where…

— Kate Carlisle

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

— Peter Criss

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Paul Pierce

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 really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull…

— Katy Perry

When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly…

— Lana Parrilla

I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a…

— Matthea Harvey

And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make…

— Gayle Forman

Brooklyn has a strong, historic relationship with both music and basketball, and I look forward to working with BSE Global to find…

— Angela Yee

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in…

— Bill Griffith

Sydney is a perfect city, because it's by the water. I love New York, too, because I once had a flat in…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I was driving my 1959 Chevy Impala down King's Highway in Brooklyn with the top down, and I heard 'Oh! Carol' on…

— Neil Sedaka

I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom,…

— Adam Richman

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn."…

— Betty Smith

I have a very unsatisfactory and incomplete knowledge of Brooklyn and cannot discuss specifically either what you can do here or what…

— Gutzon Borglum

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was…

— Betty Smith

“He decided to cut it up (using his butcher skills) and deposit the parts all over Brooklyn, apparently thinking police wouldn’t figure…

— Bridget Heos

I knew I wasn't going back to Brooklyn... I never knew exactly. I just kinda - you work with these guys every…

— D'Angelo Russell

Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case,…

— Wesley Morris

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to…

— Brian Dennehy

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

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

— Theophilus London

I was conscious of being a British actor doing a ridiculous Brooklyn voice, so I toned it down.

— Harris Dickinson

Play the world, shake them all. Now it's all grizzly, keep Brooklyn now I'm all.

— Pac Div

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

— Eliza Hittman

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

— Angela Yee

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

— David Beckham

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

— Harry Frankfurt

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