Rebecca Stead Quotes

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

New York City is my playground.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

I adore Copenhagen, where I live, but I'm really drawn to New York.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

My favorite elements of 'Start Talkin'' were those man-on-the-street pieces. I love shooting those. I was born in Manhattan, have lived in or around New York my entire life, and I feel like I'm in my element when doing those pieces.

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.

I grew up taking the Long Island Railroad from Baldwin, New York into Penn Station and walking upstairs to Madison Square Garden. Those are some of my favorite memories.