Brooklyn New York Quotes:

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: New York, Brooklyn, Today, Brooklyn New York

I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.

- Leah D. Daughtry

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Running, New York, March On Washington, Brooklyn New York

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.

- Maurice Ashley

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Brother, New York, Smart, Brooklyn New York, Smart Kid

I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.

- Erin Willett

topic: Art, New York, Years, Brooklyn New York

As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.

- Talib Kweli

source: Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

topic: New York, Careers, People, Brooklyn New York, Underground Music

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

- Talib Kweli

source: Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: New York, Cities, Community, Brooklyn New York

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

- Michael Chabon

source: Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

topic: Dream, New York, Book, Interviewers, Houdini

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

topic: New York, Bridges, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

- Theophilus London

topic: New York, Years, Age, Performing Music, Brooklyn New York

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

- Robert Jay Lifton

topic: New York, Boys, Childhood, Brooklyn New York

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

- Jennifer Connelly

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: New York, Fun, Kids, Fun Night, Brooklyn New York

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

- Warren Cuccurullo

topic: New York, California, Trying, Brooklyn New York

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.

- Betty Smith

topic: Beautiful, Summer, New York, Williamsburg, Somber

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Dream, New York, Dad, Public Housing, Access

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: New York, Children, Father, 1930s, Brooklyn New York