Avenues Quote by Big Daddy Kane

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

— Michael Bastian

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

— Tracy Chevalier

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

— Malik Yoba

My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on…

— Peter Marino

“The urban spread became Vanderbilt University, a sedate greenness signaled they had arrived. Taylor had always relished the dichotomy that was Nashville; there was…

— J.T. Ellison

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

— Robert Klein

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Everything was happening on that strip of Fulton Street. And if I wanted Chinese food, if I wanted to play video games, if I…

— The Notorious B.I.G

“MR. VAN BUREN DIED IN THE ARMS OF HIS LOVER, ANNABELLE WHITAKER, IN TENNESSEE. HIS WIFE, MAGS, CAN NOW REST IN PEACE.”

— Lauren K. Denton

It was down in Louisiana. Just a mile from. Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home.

— Lead Belly

For 10 years while I was at ESPN, I lived at the Residence Inn in Southington, Connecticut, near Bristol. I did that because my…

— Skip Bayless

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

— John Catsimatidis