Quotes Tagged With :brooklyn

Stop, stop pretty water!"Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away."You run on so fast!I....

The immediate difficulty, Florence realised while riding the high rail back to Brooklyn, was how to break....

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this....

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned....

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing....

Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or....

My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and....

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din....

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious....