My sister died in Brooklyn.Frank McCourtTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“My sister died in Brooklyn.
“I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.”Frank McCourtBedroom
“We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.”Valentin ChmerkovskiyBrooklyn
“I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'”Frank McCourtDrawer
“In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.”Roz ChastBrooklyn
“Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.”Joshua FoerBrooklyn
“I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.”Said SayrafiezadehBrooklyn