#brooklyn

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. ↗

— Peter Criss

#dad #education #four #grew #had

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 never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#demands #did #fast-paced #flying #glad

I grew up in Brooklyn. ↗

— Johnny Kelly

#grew #i #up

He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it ↗

— Kate Carlisle

#funny #kate-carlisle #funny

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. ↗

— Jay-Z

#collection #extensive #filled #grew #had

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#dodgers #i #rooted #were

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#awesome #baby #boom #brooklyn #generation

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#california #got #i #into #living

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#boy #brooklyn #childhood #i #i was born