Brooklyn Quotes · Page 9

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

— Dave East

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

— Caroline Polachek

I've been to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan numerous times throughout my career.

— Nicole Malliotakis

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

— Barbara Boxer

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually…

— Grant Achatz

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

— Saoirse Ronan

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

— Alek Wek

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

— Angela Yee

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy…

— Amandla Stenberg

You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck…

— Marky Ramone

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up.…

— Talib Kweli

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department…

— Ad Reinhardt

I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle…

— Nia Long

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18,…

— Lana Del Rey

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and…

— Barbra Streisand

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I…

— Eddie Griffin

'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is…

— Stephanie Beatriz

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…

— Lev Grossman

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York -…

— Fran Lebowitz

I am thankful that Brooklyn, a community of more than 2.6 million people of which nearly half speak a language other than…

— Eric Adams

Being in New York as a whole, Brooklyn as well, you can do anything you want. That's by far the best part…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of…

— Betty Smith

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

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

— Anonymous

I'm big on coffee shops. Fortunately, I live in Brooklyn where there are many to choose from.

— Camille Perri

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

— Joe Harris

Maybe I can become an all-rookie, but first I have to get minutes to play for Brooklyn.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

— Anthony Weiner

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

— Michael Musto

Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to…

— Fernando Torres

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

— Kemp Muhl

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

— Iyanla Vanzant

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta…

— Theophilus London

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

— Ned Vizzini

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

— Joe Torre

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

— David Beckham

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

— Nas

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

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— Neil Diamond