I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers…

My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.

— Shannon Briggs

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

— Sharon Jones

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

— Paula White

New York is like an Island, a big Rikers Island. The cops be out wilding, all I hear is sirens. It's all about surviving,…

— Nas

I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island,…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

On Wednesday, a 55 year-old inmate escaped from Rikers Island after he convinced guards that he was a lawyer. Guards probably should've become suspicious…

— Seth Meyers

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

— Kerry Kennedy

It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a…

— David Green

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the…

— Bob Cousy

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

— Jim Butcher

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for…

— Teresa of Avila

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

— Anne Cameron

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too…

— Samuel Gompers

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

— James Buckham Kennedy