Brooklyn Quotes

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

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.

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.

I live in Brooklyn.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

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.

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

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.

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.

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

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.