Brooklyn Quotes

• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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

  David Wilkerson

  Miracle, Manhattan, Gang

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• We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

  Duke Snider

  Air, Lovely, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Way, Spread

  Song: Juicy

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• 'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Dear God, Hours

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

  Robert Quine

  Summer, Jobs, Sick

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• I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

  Will Rogers

  Hypocrite, Men, Brooklyn Bridge

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

  Dominic Chianese

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• 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, Moving, Iceland

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

  Tony Visconti

  Sound, Grew Up, Household

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• I grew up in Brooklyn.

  Johnny Kelly

  Grew Up, Grew

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• My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Uncles, Grandfather, Navy

  Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press

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

  Star Jones

  Senior, Division, Assistants

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

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Independent, Interviews, Researchers

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• 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.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Queens, Different, Manhattan

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

  Connie Stevens

  Dog, Two, Pet

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• Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Sleep, Pieces

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• 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.

  Herbie Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• 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

  Funny, Believe, Thinking

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• And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mother, Hurt, Fighting

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• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  Bill Griffith

  Art, New York, School

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• 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

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• 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

  Artist, America, Temples

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• 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.

  Curt Weldon

  Military, Cells, Secret

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• 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.

  Emanuel Celler

  Taken, Color, Rose

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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