Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.

I try to remember what it was like to be a kid in New York. I lived in different parts of my childhood in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, where 'When You Reach Me' is set, and also in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.

I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I grew up in a great neighborhood, and I remember that you just walked out the front door, and you had a ton of friends to hang out and play with.

I lived across the street from my elementary school, and in the schoolyard we could always go play there and know we were safe.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

Only freedom can make security secure.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety

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

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

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.

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.

Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.