Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.' — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
IN A PERFECT WORLD ROBERTO CLEMENTE WOULD'VE BEEN A YANKEE -A.MORALES BRONX NY — Axel Morales Copy Share Image
New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down. — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money?… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“I ran back into the emergency room crying, yelling, and screaming, “Somebody please help my mother. He is going to kill her!” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign. — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher. — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I attended Bronx Science. I graduated and am very much aware of both what those schools offer New Yorkers and the limitations… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a… — Regis Philbin Copy Share Image
For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image