#brooklyn

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#girl #i #i think #myself #think

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. ↗

— Chris Rock

#black #brooklyn #first #history #i

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

— Dave Van Ronk

#brooklyn #grandfather #navy #uncle #worked

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

— Star Jones

#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations. ↗

— Shakira

#any #brooklyn #clothes #clothing #company

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear? ↗

— Kate Carlisle

#funny #kate-carlisle #funny

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brooklyn #hot #i #i was raised #raised

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

#back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

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

— Neil Diamond

#anything #brooklyn #change #easiest #experience

I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah ↗

— Kate Carlisle

#funny #kate-carlisle #funny