Bedroom Quote by Theodore Melfi

I grew up on the brink of poverty in Baltimore and the Bronx during the '80s and '90s. I remember those streets you couldn't…

— Wes Moore

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

— Neil Sedaka

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

— Paul Auster

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

— Josh Radnor

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by…

— Fran Lebowitz

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in…

— Anonymous

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

— Pauline Chalamet

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in…

— William Klein

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there,…

— Barry Manilow

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep…

— Chris Kraus