Top 60 Long Island Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Long Island Quotes from famous people such as Darin Strauss, Peter Stuyvesant, Joe Morton, Jerry Della Femina, Alice Dreger, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is prett

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn’t have to see people from my high school.
Darin Strauss
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 started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
Joe Morton
Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.
Jerry Della Femina
As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.
Alice Dreger
Long Island has a great boxing tradition.
Gerry Cooney
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular – typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
Martin Filler
I’m from Long Island. Strong Island.
Chris Messina
I thought it’s very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
D. B. Sweeney
‘Strong Island’ is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of – what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
Yance Ford
We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we’re the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.
D’Brickashaw Ferguson
I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.
Molly Crabapple
In Long Island, people care about how much money you have. Even I did when I was growing up. I never wanted kids to see my mom’s house because I was embarrassed that they’d tell everyone, ‘Oh, Madison’s mom is poor!’ And she was definitely far from poor.
Madison Beer
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
Idina Menzel
I’m certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That’s what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, ‘I’m just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn’t surrounded by their mail and their cat.’
Winnie Holzman
I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.
Melanie Martinez
The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
Tim Bishop
The Long Island experience is so strange. You’re a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.
Fred Armisen
I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.
Ken Howard
There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That’s why it’s so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds.
Susan Isaacs
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
Bill O’Reilly
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I’ve heard about him.
Yancy Butler
I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.
Adam Conover
In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
Eddie Trunk
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people’s lives every day.
Robert Caro
The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.
Jim Brown
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.
Max Joseph
I’m a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn’t the place for me.
Alice McDermott
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
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
Rick Rubin’s undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn’t shaved since he was 23. It’s long been his registered trademark.
Stephen Rodrick
I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can re

I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions – one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
R. J. Cutler
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn’t want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.
Jessica Valenti
My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.
Soledad O’Brien
I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.
Ken Howard
My family lives on Long Island.
Reed Morano
When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It’s never delightful to glamorize one’s youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.
Sherry Turkle
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
I’m sure you’re used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it’s a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing.
Katie Nolan
In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I’d never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, ‘stripeys,’ which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
Daniel Boulud
Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and AC/DC and all that. I grew up on all that stuff.
John Petrucci
Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there’s no reason why Long Island can’t have a universality to it.
Susan Isaacs
My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.
Fred Armisen
My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
Kenneth Langone
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
I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a right to a fair trial and a right to confront your accuser.
Erik Larson
My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have lilacs in my home.
Aerin Lauder
I played for the Long Island Panthers growing up, and we played in all the boroughs.
Danny Green
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
Minnesota Fats
I have a lot of love for Long Island.
Big Daddy Kane
We weren’t poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn’t lavish – just a regular middle-class house.
Criss Angel
We’ve seen that there are a lot of people out there – teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls – that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson
My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who liked shopping, ‘a little glitter’ in her clothes, and keeping secret the actual color of her hair, which from the day I was born to the day she died, was the ‘platinum blonde’ of Jean Harlow’s.
Tom Junod
I’m born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard – melody-driven guys… They shaped me, molded my music.
Jon Bellion
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.
Chris Weidman
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island – a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
Mercy Otis Warren
People who are visiting Long Island find it’s very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
Jerry Della Femina
I hang out with everyone from Long Island. I’m friends with everyone from Long Island.
Angelina Pivarnick
I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff – sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad.
Chris Weidman