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Quotes About Borough

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
~ Boris Johnson
How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.
~ Lewis Carroll
It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.
~ Robert Rankin
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
~ Anthony Weiner
The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.
~ Sal Albanese
I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people.
~ Michael Grimm
from Brooklyn,
~ C.J. Box
As a Brooklynite, this borough holds a special place in my heart, and I'm excited to represent BSE Global and identify opportunities that elevate our community to new heights.
~ Angela Yee
I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.
~ Craig Mazin
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
~ Iain Sinclair
I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
~ Peter Jurasik
The Danish farmers were situated by fortified towns or 'burghs' manned by the Danish army, from which we derive the term for borough. These forts could be used
~ Peter Ackroyd
In a fit of nostalgia, and because he was the only man Samad knew on this little island, Samad had sought Archie out, moved into the same London borough. And slowly but surely a kind of friendship was being rekindled between the two men. 'You play like a faggot,' said Samad
~ Zadie Smith
My goal is really to use my position as the borough president and any higher-profile position to empower people, to let us all know how we can control our health.
~ Eric Adams