Top 37 Staten Quotes

#1. Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

Lorrie Moore

Staten Quotes #13475
#2. I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

Vito Fossella

Staten Quotes #62504
#3. The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.

Gordon Campbell

Staten Quotes #112533
#4. Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.

Ishmael Reed

Staten Quotes #112654
#5. Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

Will Cuppy

Staten Quotes #216969
#6. Every time I pass for a bad time I think of you and I forget everything. Do not think I'm exaggerating, that's because I love you.

Auliq Ice

Staten Quotes #218196
#7. The geology of Staten Island is the most complex of the city's boroughs, containing the terminal moraine of the last ice age, a fault line from 470 million years ago, the southern tail of the Palisades formation, and sediments collected over the millennia.

Sergey Kadinsky

Staten Quotes #271123
#8. The crimes men commit against women aren't done to women as random individuals; they're done because women belong to a subordinate class and they're done to keep women a subordinate class. The

Ruth Barrett

Staten Quotes #275610
#9. No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

Leo Tolstoy

Staten Quotes #437241
#10. One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

Michael Grimm

Staten Quotes #523754
#11. I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

Vinny Guadagnino

Staten Quotes #610891
#12. What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

Michael Grimm

Staten Quotes #701062
#13. Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

Kedar Joshi

Staten Quotes #770514
#14. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers

David McCullough

Staten Quotes #804778
#15. You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Jason Alexander

Staten Quotes #806231
#16. Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Gerald Vann

Staten Quotes #818030
#17. You never know who's watching.

Don Mattingly

Staten Quotes #928481
#18. Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.

James Mace

Staten Quotes #942587
#19. in Staten Island. It

James Patterson

Staten Quotes #1010907
#20. The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in.

Frank McCourt

Staten Quotes #1057088
#21. Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

Ruth Rendell

Staten Quotes #1154567
#22. The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

Al Sharpton

Staten Quotes #1175495
#23. I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

Michael Grimm

Staten Quotes #1222101
#24. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

James Martineau

Staten Quotes #1249775
#25. Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

Staten Quotes #1356878
#26. Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

Cappadonna

Staten Quotes #1363488
#27. I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Vinny Guadagnino

Staten Quotes #1475310
#28. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Glen Cook

Staten Quotes #1483691
#29. Colonel Mickelson looks like he could defend Fort Hamilton by himself if Staten Island ever declared war and invaded ...
If Jack Nicholson looked like this when he yelled that Tom Cruise couldn't handle the truth, Cruise would have said, Yes, you're right, I'm sorry. My bad.

David Rosenfelt

Staten Quotes #1505642
#30. The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Vito Fossella

Staten Quotes #1514141
#31. Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

Theo Rossi

Staten Quotes #1580665
#32. On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

Niels Arden Oplev

Staten Quotes #1652175
#33. My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.

Al Sharpton

Staten Quotes #1655565
#34. In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

Al Sharpton

Staten Quotes #1730683
#35. When things get too much for me, I put a wild-flower book and a couple of sandwiches in my pockets and go down to the South Shore of Staten Island and wander around awhile in one of the old cemeteries down there. (Mr Hunter's Grave, 1956)

Joseph Mitchell

Staten Quotes #1770513
#36. The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

John McEnroe

Staten Quotes #1787840
#37. I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

John Liu

Staten Quotes #1823000

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