Brooklyn Quote by Dave Van Ronk Download Open image “My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.” — Dave Van Ronk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brooklyn Grandfather My grandfather Navy Uncles Yards
Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected. — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base. — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service. — David Robinson Copy Share Image
My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
You know, my dad was a second lieutenant in the Air National Guard Reserve, and my grandfather wasn't particularly happy about the time it… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.' — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
“March 1958 issue, for example, notes that “Dave Van Ronk, like so many other Village characters, has affected a beard.” — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.” — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it… — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
