Quotes of: Long-island Keyword

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

Edie Falco

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Yancy Butler

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Tim Bishop

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Alexa Ray Joel

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Gerry Cooney

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

Idina Menzel

No man is an island, entire of itself.

No Man Is An Island - Meditation XVII

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Paul Mazursky

Or I would be the rain itself, wreathing over the island, mingling in the quiet of moist places, filling its pores with its saturated breaths. And I would be the wind, whispering through the tangled woods, running airy fingers over the island’s fac...

The Island Within

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Mitch Kapor

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

Criss Angel

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the...

The Island Within

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

Richard Dawkins

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Criss Angel

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

Lorraine Bracco

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Steve Buscemi

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

Bill O'Reilly

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Chuck Schumer

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.

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