Quotes and Sayings About Brooklyn
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
-- Al Sharpton -
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
-- Barbra Streisand -
I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
-- Barry Manilow -
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
-- Betty Smith -
It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
-- Betty Smith -
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
-- Bob Dole -
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 -
It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.
-- David Plotz -
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
-- David Wilkerson -
In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
-- Don Drysdale -
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 to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
-- Ellen Burstyn -
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
-- Ernie Harwell -
When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.
-- GZA -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
-- Hakeem Jeffries -
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
-- Herbie Mann -
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
-- John Goodman -
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
-- Jonathan Franzen -
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.
-- Keri Russell -
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.
-- Marianne Moore -
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
-- Mel Brooks -
I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
-- Michael De Luca -
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
-- Michael K. Williams
