Staten Island Quotes

“Maybe that’s why most people never move off Staten Island—they’re terrified of hitting traffic on the way out.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“The reality is: Staten Island is like 90 percent of the country—it’s slow to change, but most of the people are fundamentally good people. They’re just set in their ways. After all, it’s an island. It has its own evolution.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“One of my great joys in life was making a movie with Method Man, who told me he would never leave Staten Island because it was the only place in America where he could get pulled over and the cops were actually excited to see him.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“Yes, Staten Island is the most Italian county in all of the United States, beating out even Meatball, Indiana. But the beauty of Staten Island is that anyone who lives there long enough, regardless of ethnicity, just becomes Italian.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“Everything that happens everywhere else happens on Staten Island, too, but here people try not to see the indecencies, the domestic violence, the drug use. And then, having denied what's right in front of their eyes, they tell themselves that at least they're living in a good place full of good people.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became