Long Island Quotes: top 46 famous quotes about Long Island

Long Island Quotes & Sayings

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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. — Idina Menzel

I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there. — Marisha Pessl

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

Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States. — Calvin Trillin

A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island. It — Ernest Hemingway,

There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds. — Susan Isaacs

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down. — D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco. — Don Maloney

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression. — Rick Riordan

But now he was married and had children, and even though he still had the boat the aura of island romanticism had gone. The long hair too. — Karl Ove Knausgard

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. — Criss Angel

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me. — Alice McDermott

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. — Milan Kundera

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald

Somewhere in the vast jewelry of the Long Island night we walked, in wind and rain ... — Jack Kerouac

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G. — Carol Leifer

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. — Tim Bishop

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island. — Kevin Connolly

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. — Ricky Jay

We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean, and we could only go so far. — Jack Kerouac

Long Island is a mess anyway! No one will miss it. — Rick Riordan

I've never even been to Long Island — Meg Cabot

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. — Susan Isaacs

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island. — Chris Messina

My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have lilacs in my home. — Aerin Lauder

People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products. — Jerry Della Femina

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. — Katie Nolan

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded
as long as you have cash. — Doug Cooper

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. — Alexa Ray Joel

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. — Jerry Della Femina

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island. — Molly Crabapple

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. — Yancy Butler

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower

Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one. — Tim Hall

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that. — Edie Falco

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in. — Ernie Colon

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. — Tim Bishop

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. — Bill O'Reilly

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened. — Darin Strauss

Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground. — Winston S. Churchill

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. — Gerry Cooney

This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed. — Will Bly

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago. — Kenneth Langone

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. — Mitch Kapor