Brooklyn Quotes

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.
Al Sharpton

Life, Family, Food

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

History, School, Black

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

Place, Bit, Bike

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

Rooted, Dodgers

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

Friends, Big, Percent

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

Build, Bridge, Scientists

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
Katy Perry

History, Book, Sometimes

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
Peter Steele

Mother, Care, Fact

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
Maurice Sendak

Life, Health, Bad

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

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

Hot, Air, Streets

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

Amazing, School, Creative

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

Happen, Miracles, Streets

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

Gone, Cheesecake, Send

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
Ethan Hawke

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
Iyanla Vanzant

Life, Hope, Blessed

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'
Charles Schumer

Strong, Message, Backwards

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.
Seann William Scott

Everyone, Days, Three

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

Food, America, Though

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie Harwell

Career, Brilliant, Height

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
Jo Nesbo

Father, Used, Call

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

Business, Forward, Care

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.
Jay-Z

Mom, House, Wonder

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
Joshua Foer

Work, Sometimes, Makes

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
Tony Visconti

Music, Live, Sound

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.
Michelle Williams

Life, Best, Happy

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

Change, Experience, Place

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.
Ken Burns

Children, Making, Film

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

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
Anthony Weiner

Home, Nice, Left

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