Brooklyn Quotes · Page 8

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

— Ernie Harwell

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

— Cat Agonis

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

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

— Lena Dunham

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

— Chris Mullin

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

— Gregory Pardlo

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd…

— Jennifer Connelly

I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was…

— Leah D. Daughtry

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think…

— Brooklyn Sudano

I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to…

— Fernando Torres

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn…

— Anonymous

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born…

— Ken Burns

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go…

— Clive Davis

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would…

— Julian Casablancas

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out…

— Tracy Morgan

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I…

— Colson Whitehead

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

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

— Scott Westerfeld

“We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read.…

— Ned Vizzini

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker,…

— Al Sharpton

I had gone back home to finish my book in 2011, and that's when these laws really started coming into states all…

— Lizz Winstead

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also…

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Jonathan Franzen

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

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

— Tracy Morgan

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

— Rene Balcer

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

— Bob Dylan

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

— Donald Trump

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

— Betty Comden

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my…

— Charlemagne Palestine

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

— Jahlil Okafor

My office prides itself on providing outstanding constituent services for the residents of Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn.

— Nicole Malliotakis

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

— David Beckham

“Magnus Bane,” said Magnus. “High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.”

— Cassandra Clare

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

— Aja Brown