Brooklyn Quotes · Page 6

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

— Anthony Bourdain

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

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

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

— Ben Howard

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

— Erik Larson

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

— Mary Tyler Moore

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

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so…

— Marielle Heller

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out…

— Herbie Mann

I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider…

— Julie White

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there…

— Ellen Burstyn

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or…

— Erykah Badu

Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown…

— Gza

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very…

— Don Drysdale

As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all…

— Talib Kweli

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

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the…

— Jonathan Lethem

In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music].…

— Aaron Brookner

The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed…

— Wentworth Miller

There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a…

— Patti Smith

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more…

— Howard Schultz

There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no…

— Alex Stapleton

MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series…

— Michaela Angela Davis

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

— Hakeem Jeffries

Just playing in Brooklyn, playing in New York is such an amazing experience - it's something that can be so special.

— Brook Lopez

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

— Stephanie Beatriz

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

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

— Isaac Mizrahi

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

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Kate Christensen

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

— Nas

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

— Neil Diamond

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

— David Beckham

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

— Joe Torre

“Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his…

— Ned Vizzini