These Newark quotes will inspire you. Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and part of the New York metropolitan area.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Newark quotes, Newark sayings, and Newark proverbs.
Best Newark Quotes
- “Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.” ~ Hakeem Jeffries
- “Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall!” ~ Lil Romeo
- “But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight – you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that – so, you know, a few hours.” ~ Nick Lowe
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“Grief is Newark. It’s there. Can’t avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic’s not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.” ~ Eli Attie
- “My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They’ve ended up in Scotland, where my father – well, both of them – will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.” ~ Ali Smith
- “I’m from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in ’97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.” ~ Carson Daly
- “I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, ‘Hey, here’s $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.’ What am I going to say, no? So I did it.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
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“Why aren’t the Nets playing in Newark?” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
- “I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.” ~ Ice T
- “Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark’s glamour.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn’t make sense. I’ve been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I’ve] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.” ~ Michael B. Jordan
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“We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark, and elsewhere.” ~ Kshama Sawant
- “All my life I’ve been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: “Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?” And so I went with them. Period.” ~ Tom Hayden
- “I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, “Whose schools?” They said, “The Black and the Brown.” Is that an accident? I don’t think so. We are being designed to be destroyed – and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that’s in high places.” ~ Louis Farrakhan
- “You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible – you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land – we’ve become a third world country.” ~ Donald Trump
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“A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there’s two words I trust together in the same sentence, it’s ‘cheap’ and ‘helicopter.'” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, … I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.” ~ George Clinton
- “Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.” ~ Weegee
- “My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.” ~ Anita Diament
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“To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I’ve been doing that for 20 years.” ~ Norman Granz
- “Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.” ~ Derek Luke
- “The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents’ health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.” ~ Conan O’Brien
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“I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.” ~ Joe Tex
- “Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.” ~ Johnny Carson
- “Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.” ~ Weegee
