Top 105 Bronx Quotes

I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.

Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.

To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she’s not forgotten in this crazy world – that’s why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing’s records regularly spilling out over WNEW.

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

The mini-series ‘The Bronx is Burning’ thoroughly embarrassed me the way the story was told.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

You can’t live in the Bronx and survive on just $80,000 or so of income, if you’re married and you have three kids at home.

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 hop.

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

My first job was being a page at ‘The Tonight Show.’ I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he’d done the night before. I thought, ‘I can do that!’ I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

We make decisions every day about what we’re going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes – two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

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.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of ‘The Color Purple.’ It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

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

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

I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.

The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you’ve got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South Bronx, which is not really in their best interests.

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.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

I’m not a child star, but you could say that I’ve grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called ‘Martin.’ From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on ‘Saturday Night Live’ since Eddie Murphy.

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan’s shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

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.’

When I go to America, I’m fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there – to New York last October, November – I went and explored. I went to the rough areas – to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.

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

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

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.

People’s hustle in the Bronx is real.

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don’t always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it’s just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I was born in the Bronx but my parents hated living in the Bronx so they moved to Oregon when I was 6 months old.

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

I moved to New York aged 16, and worked part-time in a Korean store in South Bronx selling groceries, bread and confectionery. I earned $10 and it was painful because I didn’t want to be there. I also worked in Debenhams as a kid, and a Wimpy in Brighton when I was 20.

I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.

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

Hip-hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I’m down the block from where hip-hop was born and raised, so I’m glad I am here and I’m able to represent New York the way I am.

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.

My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when ‘West Side Story’ was real. They have the scars to prove it.

There’s a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

I chose ‘BronxWorks’ because I’m from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and how it is growing up in The Bronx.

It’s not just in The Bronx or in the ghettos or even just America. It’s worldwide. Who knows, it could be some aliens on Mars listening to hip-hop, you know what I mean? So it’s really, really transformed from this little thing of ours to a thing for everyone.

I’m just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

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.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

She’s Jenny from the block! I love her music and her movies. And she goes back to where she grew up in the Bronx and gives back to the community.

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.

I grew up with my parents screaming and yelling at each other for the rent in Bronx, New York City at the time. It was $36. So my mind hadn’t stretched out to that place where I could spend a whole month’s rent on a 45-minute plane flight to Fargo, N.D.

‘A’ comes from Artist. And ‘Boogie’ from the Bronx. ‘The Hoodie’ part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

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.