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Brooklyn Quotes

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)