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

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

— Jennifer Lopez

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Malachi Martin

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

— Ed Koch

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a…

— Cara Buono

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of…

— Majora Carter

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

— Alice Waters

“…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it…

— Michelle Au

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

— Damien Black

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…

— Fat Joe

As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip…

— Fat Joe

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“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…

— Richard Fliegel

I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would…

— Romeo Santos

Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.

— Erica Mena