Bronx Quotes
76 quotes by 66 authors
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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if…
— Ellen Barkin
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
— Kurtis Blow
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.
— KRS-One
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Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then…
— Moss Hart
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In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't…
— Kool Moe Dee
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
— Majora Carter
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Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable
— Majora Carter
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As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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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 letter…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
— Daniel Libeskind
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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 with…
— Malachi Martin
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When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My…
— Dominic Chianese
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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
— H. L. Mencken
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But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in…
— Jason Alexander
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I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a…
— Joe Lhota
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Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a…
— Langston Hughes
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
— Maggie Siff
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I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I…
— Swizz Beatz
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