Grandmother Quote by Sammy Davis, Jr

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up…

— Walter Dean Myers

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

— Alexandra Daddario

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

— John Catsimatidis

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before…

— Regina Hall

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle…

— Jason Alexander

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

— Judy Greer

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

— Mekhi Phifer

My parents moved to Los Angeles before I was born and built a beautiful home here in Bel Air.

— Kyle Richards

I bought my mom a house once, but she wanted to move back to a trailer to live by her sister.

— Jelly Roll

I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there.

— Mohamed Bamba

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

— London Breed

I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were…

— John Edgar Wideman