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Long Island Quotes

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 residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers. Tim Bishop
May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents' worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. The money will... Betty Smith
Meg Cabot quote: "I've never even been to Long Island"
I've never even been to Long Island Meg Cabot
I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me, because of all the older girls I admired her most. She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages. I was. Well, then, would I tell them that she couldn't come that day? The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back. Meg Cabot
I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a rush hour, too, seeing with my innocent road-eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hoorair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream-grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island City. Jack Kerouac
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
Minnesota Fats quote: "Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in..."
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. Minnesota Fats
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. Nelson DeMille
Edie Falco quote: "I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something..."
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
Nicole Polizzi quote: "It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It..."
It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. Nicole Polizzi
Gerry Cooney quote: "I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never..."
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. Gerry Cooney
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

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