Brooklyn Quotes

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. (Bill O'Reilly)
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. View quote
Ken Burns
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
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. View quote
Sydney Schanberg
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. "Izzy,” she would say, "did you ask a good question today?” That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. View quote
Isidor Isaac Rabi
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey. View quote
Meg Cabot
I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry. View quote
Rick Riordan
I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery. View quote
Susan Isaacs
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me. (Danny DeVito)
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. View quote
Bill Griffith
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. View quote
Brooklyn Decker
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. View quote
Curt Weldon
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. View quote
David Wilkerson
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
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. View quote
Emanuel Celler
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn. View quote
Hakeem Jeffries
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. View quote
Herbie Mann
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. View quote
Herbie Mann
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. (Howard Schultz)
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. View quote
Isaac Mizrahi
I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day. View quote
Jonathan Ames
I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. View quote
Michael Musto