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Brooklyn Quotes & Sayings

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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. — Alice McDermott

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson

I live in Brooklyn. By choice, — Truman Capote

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

It doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn — Heinlein Robert A.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties. — Freddie Prinze Jr.

If you smile and laugh, people think you're happy. If you act calm and collected, people think you have it together. — Brooklyn James

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear? — Kate Carlisle

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. — William F. Buckley Jr.

It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn't want to kill you."
A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort. — Brooklyn Ann

I need to go hunting now," he rasped. Before I tear off your clothes and plunge my c*** and my fangs inside you. — Brooklyn Ann

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

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows. — Brooklyn Decker

I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers. — Brooklyn James

Some people write books, others paint masterpieces — Masterpieces From Brooklyn Museum

The tears stood in her eyes. — Betty Smith

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion. — Joan Rivers

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA. — Cary Fukunaga

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded. — Sandrine Holt

At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn. — Paul Pierce

Brooklyn, New York, and — Michael J. Tougias

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. — George Vecsey

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face. — Michael K. Williams

Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn. — Anne Sexton

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

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

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me. — Don Lemon

My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies. — Rochelle Aytes

I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn. — LIZ

But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again. — Betty Smith

far less than one block in Brooklyn. — David Baldacci

I hate Brooklyn. — Cassandra Clare

Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer. -Rose — Colm Toibin

Life is for living and for sharing - but not taking. — Brooklyn June

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. — David Byrne

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something. — Brooklyn Sudano

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician. — Charlemagne Palestine

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard. — Saoirse Ronan

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. — Barbra Streisand

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do. — Theophilus London

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down — Nas

See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brooklyn." Like that makes it okay or something. — Lisa Schroeder

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that. — Brooklyn Sudano

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

I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are. — Paul Dano

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood. — Anthony Fauci

Brooklyn praise is half slander. — Mark Twain

There is no home without you. — Brooklyn Ann

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it. — Ned Vizzini

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year. — Richard Jeni

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years. — Didi Conn

He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear. — Colm Toibin

Beth is the kind of girl you want to stuff into a trunk, wrapped in plastic" - Shane Carver (Quote from: The Carver's Magic) — B.L. Brooklyn

I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day. — Daniel Humm

I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn; — Pete Hamill

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting. — Woody Allen

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. — Joe Torre

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. — Connie Stevens

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

Oh good, apparently when you have sex with Brooklyn Heart, you leave with a fruit basket. What a lovely experience. — R.S. Grey

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something? — Kemp Muhl

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 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. — Chris Rock

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

Ah, Querida, an angel of mercy you are not." The — Brooklyn Ann

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain

Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco. — Zadie Smith

That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day. — Garth Ennis

We're both young Dominicans who represent North Brooklyn, but we're also hardened criminals," Reynoso said. "We're dance outlaws. — Emily Witt

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck. — Grant Achatz

Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city. — Corey Ann Haydu

It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin. — Kate Christensen

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island. — Bruce Springsteen

Only the dead know Brooklyn. — Thomas Wolfe

You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem) — B.L. Brooklyn

Holy swoon-gate!' Elliot exclaims when I finally get to the end of my tale. 'If that's what Brooklyn boys are like I'm emigrating as soon as possible! — Zoe Sugg

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules. — Rene Balcer

I need you more than I need the sunshine. — Brooklyn Ann

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things. — Paul Auster

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. — Brendan Dooling

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

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. — Joan Rivers

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test. — Brooklyn Sudano

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

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn. — Paul Dano

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me. — Nicole Polizzi

Love doesn't tell time. - Brooklyn — Lisa Schroeder

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that? — John Goodman

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet. — David Beckham

Te amo, Querida," he whispered, stroking her hair. "Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad." I love you. You are my light in the darkness. — Brooklyn Ann

Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here. — Charlie Huston

I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead. — Brooklyn June

In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness. — Arthur Nersesian

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? — Colson Whitehead

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun. — David Beckham