Bronx Quotes

76 quotes by 66 authors

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
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow
Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo. — Gerry Cheevers
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
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
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
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
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. — Majora Carter
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter
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
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
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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