#brooklyn

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#brooklyn #i #left #until

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#city #could #fans #loyal #man

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#kind #retreat #writer

I live in Brooklyn. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#i #live

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#i #i was raised #lived #raised #years

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

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#began #brooklyn #fully #hired #i

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

#because #bronx #brooklyn #day #different

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it. ↗

— Betty Smith

#beauty

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. ↗

— Betty Smith

#opening-lines #beauty

Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of their legs. Brooklyn turned a tight-lipped smile on him. "Thanks so much for that penis-driven observation. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#cameron #death-and-girl-next-door #death