Top 1200 Brooklyn Bridge Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.

Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when we weren't in the studio. It was like a fraternity house.

I hope I can help Chelsea win many trophies during my time at Stamford Bridge.

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

I have always aspired to be the type of role model who can bridge the deaf and hearing communities.

We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years old at that time, and was going to kindergarten. One day the mother of one of his little friends came to see us and said in a sugary voice, 'Oh, it must be so sad for you to have no time to spend with your little boy!' Rajiv roared like a lion: 'My mother spends more time with me than you spend with your little boy, see! Your little boy says you always leave him alone so you can play bridge!' I detest women who do nothing and they play bridge.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn, and I would skip class to shoot my scenes.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.

I represent 740,000 people who live in Brooklyn and in Staten Island. And I have to vote the way I see is in their interests and their interests only.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

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.

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special.

Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

I lived in Brooklyn for a year and I moved out to Rockaway Beach. I've been living here for two years now. I put my address on the album, so I have a lot of visitors all the time.

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.

(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

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.

I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

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.'

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

'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.