Top 1200 Brooklyn Bridge Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.

I'm big on coffee shops. Fortunately, I live in Brooklyn where there are many to choose from.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn.

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

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

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

Maybe I can become an all-rookie, but first I have to get minutes to play for Brooklyn.

I hope some more players will come from Mostar to Brooklyn.

Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.” He turned and walked back to the hated door. “Er, excuse me,” said Ford following after him, “which government owns this ship?” Marvin ignored him. “You watch this door,” he muttered, “it’s about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates.

Everyone needs a facelift, except if you are from Brooklyn then you need a nose job !!!

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

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

The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

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

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

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

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

There's a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.

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

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

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

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

When I found out that I'd been traded to Brooklyn - it was pretty much the best feeling in the world.

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

In the beggining of I was getting all this feedback from people saying, "What are you doing? What is this?" But I thought to myself, "This is a great opportunity. This is a perfect bridge to help me achieve my dream and my vision of polo becoming a bigger, more visible sport." So I used the money that I was getting from modeling to buy better horses and to become a better player. So I really believed that if I could elevate my game and show that I was serious about it, then the work I was doing with Ralph Lauren would become that bridge that I was looking for to take the sport further.

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.