84 Bronx Quotes for You to Enjoy

From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians. Eduardo Bhatia

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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 I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.' Ellen Barkin

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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be. Fat Joe

Music Time You Analyze Bronx Would Would-Be Gladiator Almost Because How Equivalent Era Coming Lot Up Movie Really Violence

My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall. Garry Marshall

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I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester. George A. Romero

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I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. Grandmaster Flash

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Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy. Greg Fitzsimmons

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New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. Jerry Saltz

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All my Latino side is from the Bronx. Jimmy Smits

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I've had a great love for Al Pacino's work since I first saw him on the stage doing 'The Indian Wants the Bronx' in the early '70s. His work is remarkable. He's the real thing. Jon Voight

I definitely know a lot of guys that played in the league that came from the Bronx, but not a lot of them are a franchise all-time leading scorer. It's special, and I take pride in that. Kemba Walker

Pride Franchise Definitely Bronx All-Time Guys Take Leading League Know Came Scorer Lot Them Special Played

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life. Kenneth Kamler

Life Kid Bronx Adventurous Wanted Even

For the red carpet, I'm totally a stiletto girl. But in the rest of my life, I'd say I'm 50/50. I love a good heel, but I also have a really great sneaker collection. That's the Bronx girl in me. Kerry Washington

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I come from a family with a really strong work ethic - not just my parents, but my aunts, uncles and cousins. It rubbed off on me. I have a cousin in The Bronx who says I'm like the longshoreman of actors. I am a worker. Kerry Washington

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx. Kool Moe Dee

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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

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

World Bronx Hip-Hop Famous Things Championships Two

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun. Leonard Susskind

Family Father Sick Bronx Plumber Take Had He Over Got South South Bronx Being Poor Fun Jewish

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.' Liz Murray

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz. Both are waterfront communities that host both industries and residents in close proximity of one another. Majora Carter

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In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.' Matthew Desmond

Three Community Cold Bronx Only Crowd February Observing Because Account Times Families Published Resistance Numbered

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