Brooklyn famous quotes
07-12-2025
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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 -
I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.
-- Michael Musto -
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
-- Neil Diamond -
At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.
-- Paul Pierce -
I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.
-- Pee Wee Reese -
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
-- Peter Criss -
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ***** off back in Brooklyn.
-- Peter Dinklage -
I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.
-- Raquel Zimmermann -
If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.
-- Rene Balcer -
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.
-- Robert Nozick -
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
-- Rudolph A. Marcus -
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.
-- Sean William Scott -
I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
-- Shakira -
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
-- Stan Musial -
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
-- Star Jones -
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.
-- Sydney Schanberg -
I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.
-- Theo James -
Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
-- Theophilus London -
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
-- Tony Visconti -
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
-- Tracy Morgan -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-- Waris Dirie -
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
-- Will Rogers -
I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
-- Zoe Kravitz -
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
-- Caroline Polachek -
Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.
-- Eliza Hittman -
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
-- Gregory Pardlo -
I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."
-- Kehinde Wiley -
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?
-- Kemp Muhl -
Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
-- Britta Phillips -
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.
-- Rosie Perez -
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.
-- Theo Rossi -
Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
-- Joe Flaherty -
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
-- Gregory Pardlo
