East Side Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best East Side Quotes from famous persons: Martin Scorsese, Tom Wolfe, David Duchovny, Richard Grenell, Gregory Corso. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the East Side Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

I certainly wasn’t able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me – I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

Martin Scorsese

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

Tom Wolfe

I love the Lower East Side.

David Duchovny

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

Richard Grenell

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

Gregory Corso

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story – the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Edward G. Robinson

The Hester Street Fair is kind of like a tiny baby Daily Candy market every week in the Lower East Side.

Su-chin Pak

In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

Kate Christensen

I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read ‘The New York Times‘ until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.

Joe Scarborough

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

Irving Berlin

Atlanta and Zone 6 – they produce amazing artists: not just the club bangers but people who go on to become international. There’s an extra sense of pride that comes with being from Atlanta and coming from the East Side.

6lack

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

Laura Linney

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Jacob Epstein

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

Kelly Rutherford

Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper East Side of New York, in a mansion overlooking Central Park.

Justin Cartwright

When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children‘s theater quite often – elaborate presentations of ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Rapunzel’ for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

Peter Coyote

I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

Rocky Graziano

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

LeBron James

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

James Gray

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we’ve gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

Luis Guzman

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish ‘colony‘ there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

Norman Lloyd

I’m a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

Ursula Burns

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it’s a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

Martin Scorsese

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

Liev Schreiber

I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American – more Sicilian, actually.

Martin Scorsese

I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don’t know, the East side is typically the First Lady‘s side of the house. The West side is typically the President‘s side of the house.

Desiree Rogers

When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.

Susan Vreeland

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you‘re so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Ansel Elgort

‘The Good Guy‘ is a totally differently-looking New York than ‘How To Make It’ portrays. ‘The Good Guy‘ is all about Wall Street and that culture, which ‘How To Make It’ touches on, but ‘How To Make It’ also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

Bryan Greenberg

I don’t think I’m all that twisted in my life. I’m not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.

Doug Liman

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Abraham Polonsky

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor‘s flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement – before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

Jacob K. Javits

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin’ down there and making that my stomping ground… That was a big thing, because I’m from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

Donna Lynne Champlin

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn’t do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that’s where my roots are.

Jeff Buckley

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn’t all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn’t go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

Jill Soloway

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn’t exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn’t really just for comedy.

Jessi Klein

When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.

Trish Goff

That’s what’s interesting about the Lower East Side: It’s New York, but it’s also edgy. It’s not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

Daniel Boulud

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

Susan Vreeland

As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side, I’ve witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.

Eliot Schrefer

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

Gregory Corso

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‘I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.’

Wayne Dyer

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Knute Nelson

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