Long Island Quotes

• There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Wise, Growing Up, Heart

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• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands, Light, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.155, Broadview Press

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• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Islands, Paris, Long

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Islands, Long, Areas

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• 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 Churchill

  Determination, Lying, Islands

  "God & Churchill: An Interview with Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley". www.biblegateway.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

  Chris Messina

  Strong, Islands, Long

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

  Rick Riordan

  Islands, Expression, Long

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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

  Heather McDonald

  Islands, Ice, Long

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• Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.

  Calvin Trillin

  Islands, California, Long

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• School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

  Dee Snider

  Daughter, Song, School

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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• It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

  David R. Brower

  Islands, Space, Long

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• If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

  Catherine Martin

  Islands, Long, House

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

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Long, Needs

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• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Safety, Long

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

  Gerry Cooney

  Kids, Islands, Long

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

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• I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.

  Himanshu Suri

  New York, Queens, Islands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Cutting, Islands

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Italian, Philadelphia

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• Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

  Jack Kerouac

  Nice, Book, Fall

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• I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Summer, Mother, Beach

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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• 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

  Book, Kids, Islands

  Source: www.slate.com

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