66 Newark Quotes

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Famous Newark Quotes

I grew up, a kid in New Jersey. — Jared Kushner

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. — Christopher Morley

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. — Robert Anton Wilson

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO. — Snoop Dogg

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams

All roads lead to Johannesburg. - Alan Paton

All roads lead to Johannesburg. — Alan Paton

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee. — Leonard Louis Levinson

New Jersey I’d say is one of the top 50 states. — Theo Von

The City that knows how. — William Howard Taft

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway? — John Ensign

With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area. — Sue Kelly

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat. — Big Pun

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. — Robert Moses

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. — Neil Simon

Short Newark Quotes

  • Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. — Weegee
  • I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. — Joe Tex
  • My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. — Anita Diament
  • Newark faces real challenges. — Cory Booker
  • I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. — Cory Booker
  • I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. — Cory Booker
  • Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages. — Johnny Carson
  • Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour. — Joan Rivers
  • Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn. — Hakeem Jeffries
  • Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark? — Shaquille O'Neal

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More Newark Quotes

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. — Norman Granz

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson. — George Clinton

Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall! — Lil Romeo

You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible - you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land - we've become a third world country. — Donald Trump

I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer. — Queen Latifah

A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.' — Jimmy Fallon

The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark. — Conan O'Brien

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality. — Derek Luke

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. — Ice T

I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. — Cory Booker

I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE. — Cory Booker

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it. — Shaquille O'Neal

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward. — Cory Booker

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. — Cory Booker

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. — Cory Booker

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. — Cory Booker

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. — Cory Booker

When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. — Cory Booker

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family. — Cory Booker

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. — Cory Booker

I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still. — Cory Booker

In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. — Cory Booker

We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road. — Cory Booker

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done. — Cory Booker

You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations. — Michael B. Jordan

We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere. — Kshama Sawant

I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places. — Louis Farrakhan

But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours. — Nick Lowe

Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible. — Eli Attie

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else. — Ali Smith

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team. — Carson Daly

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