#long island

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#dj #goodness #his #hit #i

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#budget #district #economic #economic security #eliminates

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#like #long #long island #over #program

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#happen #i #imagined #island #kid

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

#army #bulk #city #district #general

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

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#cop #draw #grandfather #heard #him

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

#day #every #every day #example #how

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. ↗

— William Bell

#blues #called #club #hat #high