Bronx Quotes

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My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine, ' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.