Bronx Quotes · Page 3

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

— Jamaal Bowman

I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx.

— Carl Reiner

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

— Charles Oliveira

I have overcome. That's the story of the Bronx.

— Ritchie Torres

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

— Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.

— Ruben Diaz Sr

I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Guy, go get me a switch. This muthafucker done pissed the bed again.”

— Russell Vann

I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this…

— Eliot Engel

I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my…

— Dascha Polanco

“I went home later that night, thinking about everything. I wanted revenge for my cousin, but what did I know about revenge?”

— Russell Vann

People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually…

— Fab Five Freddy

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

— Wesley Snipes

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

— Majora Carter

I feel like if I'm going to be a congressman who represents the South Bronx, I have to be the most visible…

— Ritchie Torres

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt…

— Jason Alexander

When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I’d get him out, get him home to Manhattan, and come back to my world in the Bronx. No lingering. No cuddly…

— Santino Hassell

God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things,…

— Malachi Martin

“We were always driven by a gray-haired man in the foster-care agency car. I remember leaving that abusive home, pulling out of…

— Damien Black

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge…

— Jerry Saltz

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of…

— Alex Gibney

When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches,…

— Swizz Beatz

We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs,…

— Alice Waters

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

— Kenneth Kamler

My story is the story of the Bronx, a story of overcoming.

— Ritchie Torres

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

— Maggie Siff

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic…

— Goldie

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

— Art Donovan

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

— Jennifer Lopez

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Most of the people in the South Bronx are practical rather than ideological. Their concerns are bread and butter, health and housing,…

— Ritchie Torres

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in…

— Dominic Chianese

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale'…

— Philip Zimbardo

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;…

— Al Pacino

“Fuck that! You think I’m gonna let the nigger get a gun? I’m gonna handle this shit now.”

— Russell Vann

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

— Danny Burstein

I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and…

— Hennessy Carolina

“The kids from Stuyvesant and Bronx Science formed their own pale New York clique that people seemed to leave alone,”

— Michele Campbell