Brooklyn Quotes

220 quotes by 185 authors

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is… — Theo James
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while… — Daniel Goleman
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why. — Truman Capote
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a… — Christopher Hitchens
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New… — Alfred Kazin
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and… — Debi Mazar
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there… — Elliott Carter
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to… — Stan Musial
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that… — Lev Grossman
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was… — Ken Burns
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working. — Tracy Morgan
I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me. — Nicole Polizzi
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job… — Robert Quine
For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of… — Elizabeth Strout
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. — Robert Jay Lifton
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures. — Michael K. Williams
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. — Rosie Perez
Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. — Patrick Ewing
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been… — Ellen Burstyn
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. — Peter Criss

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