Brooklyn Quotes

220 quotes by 182 authors

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so… — Emanuel Celler
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. — Herbie Mann
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. — Tracy K. Smith
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? — Colson Whitehead
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't… — Kool Moe Dee
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. — Dave Van Ronk
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. — Connie Stevens
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town… — Susan Hayward
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. — Tony Visconti
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe… — Michael Arad
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and… — Dominic Chianese
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out.… — Duke Snider
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. — Rudolph A. Marcus
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my… — Jonathan Lethem
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy whoâ€™s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. — Peter Dinklage
It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family.… — Ariana Grande
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. — Star Jones
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family â€“ real silly high-concept productions like,… — Lana Parrilla
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

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