Bronx Quotes · Page 3

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

— Don DeLillo

100 percent, I can connect and be inspired by Charles 'Do Bronx.'

— Mackenzie Dern

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

— Cy Coleman

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

— Wesley Snipes

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

— Penny Marshall

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a…

— Regis Philbin

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child…

— Liz Murray

I attended Bronx Science. I graduated and am very much aware of both what those schools offer New Yorkers and the limitations…

— Zohran Mamdani

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan,…

— Paul Farmer

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well…

— Hill Harper

My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the…

— Anonymous

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx,…

— Dan Rosensweig

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

— Robert Klein

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the…

— Joe Lhota

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea…

— Al Pacino

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and…

— Swizz Beatz

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the…

— Colin Powell

“I ran back into the emergency room crying, yelling, and screaming, “Somebody please help my mother. He is going to kill her!”

— Russell Vann

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not…

— Moss Hart

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money?…

— Ralph Lauren

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

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one…

— Cardi B

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

— Michelle Au

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

— Fat Joe

“After that everyone understood that if they had to fight me, it was going to take a while, and like all bullies,…

— Russell Vann