Bronx Quotes

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Kurtis Blow

Two, Hip Hop, World

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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Ralph Lauren

Dream, Fashion, Money

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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Al Pacino

Needs, Bodyguard, South

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

Wesley Snipes

Grew, Grew Up, Teach

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The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Chazz Palminteri

Things In Life, Choices, Forever

Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

Ace Frehley

Kids, Lucky

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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 you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

Jonathan Kozol

Growing Up, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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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

Kids, Artistic, Feds

"You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

Arthur Hertzberg

Islands, Class, Culture

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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

Two, Community, Assistants

President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

David Wilkerson

Miracle, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Tony Curtis

Navy, World, Neighborhood

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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

Ghetto, School, College

"Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

Howard Cosell

Gentleman, Burning, Ladies And Gentlemen

"Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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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 know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

Kool Moe Dee

Queens, Different, Manhattan

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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 Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Jason Alexander

Uncles, Queens, Heart

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Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

Paul Farmer

Believe, Boston, People

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When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

Cy Coleman

Mother, Years, Four

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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Colin Powell

School, Army, College

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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 knees would shake but I learned by doing.

Dominic Chianese

Sight, Years, Singing

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I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Jennifer Lopez

Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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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

Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana

Love, Inspirational, Positive

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Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

James A. Baldwin

New York, Wall, Mistake

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I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

Sonia Sotomayor

Baby, Yale, Perfect

"Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

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