Bronx Quote by Ritchie Torres Download Open image “I have overcome. That's the story of the Bronx.” — Ritchie Torres ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bronx Overcome Story
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
The Bronx definitely made me tough. And it definitely allowed me to read people. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than… — Coeur de pirate Copy Share Image
My younger self could not imagine standing on the floor of Congress as a member of Congress voting on legislation that, if enacted, would… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I am both black and Latino - there's no need to artificially barricade one from the other. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Exercising dominion over Puerto Rico, as the U.S. has done for more than a century - without granting Puerto Ricans the full franchise in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It's not going anywhere. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the blessing and burden of public service; I promised my constituents that I would work my heart out for them. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I take an expansive view of infrastructure. For me, infrastructure is more than roads and bridges. It's about the quality of the water we… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
New York City should and must embrace crypto if it is to remain the financial capital of the world. We no longer live in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“We were always driven by a gray-haired man in the foster-care agency car. I remember leaving that abusive home, pulling out of the driveway,… — Damien Black Copy Share Image
It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure… — Richard Fliegel Copy Share Image
Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced. — Erica Mena Copy Share Image
