New Jersey Quotes:

No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Jersey, New Jersey

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

- Junot Diaz

source: "Junot Diaz wins Pulitzer" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2008.

topic: Kids, Jersey, New Jersey

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

topic: New York, Jersey, Great Things, New Jersey

New Jersey gives us glue.

- Howard Dietz

topic: Giving, Glue, Jersey, New Jersey

New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

- Richard Florida

topic: New York, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

- Thomas Kean, Jr.

topic: Opportunity, Answers, Outcomes, New Jersey

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

- Stacey Dash

topic: School, Years, Lasts, Three Years, New Jersey

Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

- Louis Caldera

source: "White House apologizes for low-flying plane" by Mythili Rao, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.

topic: New York, Responsibility, Confusion, Notify, New Jersey

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

- Weegee

topic: Tree, Jersey, Hollywood, Palm Trees, Newark

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

- Piper Perabo

source: "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow Piper Perabo". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

topic: New York, Years, Trying, New Jersey

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

- Louis C. K.

source: "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, www.vulture.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Dream, Children, School, Auditoriums, New Jersey

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

- Raymond Sokolov

topic: Lunch, Islands, Jersey, New Jersey

The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

- Ilya Kovalchuk

topic: Organization, Devil, Fans, Great Organizations, New Jersey

This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

- Ilya Kovalchuk

topic: Home, Past, Russia, Back Home, Great Organizations

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

- Derek Luke

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Reality, Challenges, Newark, New Jersey

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

- Andy Warhol

topic: New Jersey

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

- Paul Muldoon

topic: Rap, Jersey, Enjoy, New Jersey

Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

- Kirsten Dunst

topic: Mom, New York, Powerful, New Jersey

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Home, Two, Fork In The Road, Giving Directions

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

- DeForest Soaries

topic: Voting, Challenges, Attention, New Jersey

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

- Jay Leno

topic: People, Three, Gone, New Jersey

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

- Robert Pattinson

source: "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

topic: Life, America, Actors, New Jersey

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

- Bill Roorbach

source: Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

topic: Teacher, Real, Teaching, Chum, Transparent

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

- Bill Maher

topic: Night, Men, White, Fox News, Burning Buildings

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

- Godfried Danneels

topic: Ocean, Ice, Cities, Ice Hockey, New Jersey

Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law.

- Chris Christie

topic: Sex, Gay, Views, New Jersey

St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.

- Margot Leitman

topic: Drinking, People, Drunk, St Patrick's Day, Holy Days

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

- Andrew Shue

source: "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.

topic: Senior, Soccer, School, Playing Soccer, Senior Citizen

I've never been one for sitting on beaches. Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

- Piper Perabo

topic: Girl, Beach, New York, New Jersey, Sitting On The Beach

New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.

- Brandon Cruz

topic: New York, Two, Summertime, New Jersey

I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

- Joe Kyrillos

topic: Jobs, Employment, Incentives, Direct And Indirect, New Jersey

We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.

- Susan Ward

topic: Opportunity, Important, Events, Sporting Events, Rosters

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

- O. Henry

topic: Wise, New York, Ocean, New Jersey

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: New York, Cities, People, New Jersey

If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.

- Amy Walter

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Opportunity, Issues, Giving, Christie, New Jersey

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

- Curtis Sliwa

topic: Block, School, Night, Zimmerman, New Jersey

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

topic: Community, Jersey, Brooklyn, New Jersey

Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. ... Ridge's announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family.

- Jon Stewart

topic: New York, Home, Orange, Announcements, Ridges

A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.

- David Letterman

topic: Obama Supporters, Iphone, President, Christie, New Jersey

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

- Donald Fagen

topic: Song, New York, Writing, New Jersey

Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through.

- Greg Giraldo

topic: Thinking, Epa, Jersey, Christine, New Jersey

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our ***** coming over there trying to do British accents.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Cat, Wyoming, Cities, Rosemary, Thyme

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

- Ameen Rihani

topic: War, Golf, Play, Post War, New Jersey

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Couple, Dancing, Months, Happy Feet, New Jersey

I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey.

- George Pataki

topic: Next, Jersey, Helping, New Jersey

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

- Tom Perrotta

topic: Summer, College, Men, New Jersey

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Differences, Jersey, Curtains, New Jersey

I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.

- John Lloyd Young

topic: Italian, Thinking, Law, Confined, New Jersey

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

- Monte Irvin

topic: Sports, Baseball, Teacher, All State, Job Opportunities

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

- Amy Poehler

topic: House, Pancakes, Firsts, Jersey Shore, Windsor

If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Best Kept Secrets, People, Jersey, Kept Secrets, Bad Jokes