Quotes About Queens New York

#1. I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center.

Dito Montiel

#2. I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Amy Ryan

#3. Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

Victor LaValle

#4. I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

Peter Jurasik

#5. These absurd showbiz queens are as much a part of New York street life as sirens, steam from manholes, or ghostly Asian deliverymen ferrying chop-suey-to-go on unlit bikes going the wrong way.

Edmund White

#6. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu

#7. People have to get out sometimes - have something good to eat, have some drinks, belt out some songs, talk about nothing in particular.

Haruki Murakami

#8. To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.

Dallas Athent

#9. I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#10. The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

William Faulkner

#11. This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.

Gary Shteyngart

#12. Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#13. The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain
the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

Elliott Abrams

#15. You have to keep going. You have to. If you push through this, you'll show them. You'll show them you didn't deserve this.

Aimee L. Salter

#16. Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#18. New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach ... and I love rap.

Action Bronson

#19. It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?

Princess Margaret

#20. I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.

Wynter Gordon

#21. I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

James Gray

#22. I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Parker Young

#23. My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

Bryan Greenberg