New yorkers Quote by Pete Hamill Download Open image ““I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”” — Pete Hamill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare New yorkers
“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.” — Cat Agonis Copy Share Image
I tell people I'm from all over Brooklyn because I never stayed in one part of Brooklyn. — Young M.A Copy Share Image
“I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
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… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights,… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
“So what do you like about New York so much? That you would venture all the way here and not tell anyone?” “Two boys… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here,… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image