Always Quote by Liz Murray

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

— Wesley Snipes

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that…

— Jonathan Kozol

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small…

— Curtis Sliwa

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

— Charles Oliveira

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can…

— Lori Lightfoot

“As I said, during those decades we kids trick or treated by ourselves, walking the familiar neighborhoods without fear and totally safe!  I suppose…

— B.J. Walker Jr

“Free is not how many of our citizens feel—with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred New Yorkers…

— Stanley Hauerwas

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

— Vladimir Putin

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“…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

“Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm a Bronx boy to the core.

— Ritchie Torres