Bronx Quotes - Page 3

• I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Needs, Fierce

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children

  Andrea Navedo

  Husband, Children, Book

  "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Son, Dna

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

  Al Pacino

  Sea, Play, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, United States, Different

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

  Betty Comden

  New York, Batteries, Towns

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• I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

  Wesley Snipes

  New York, Law, Citizens

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• 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 with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil.

  Malachi Martin

  Country, Mean, Self

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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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

  Queens, Ocean, Rivers

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• A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

  Wesley Snipes

  Cat, Found, Grew

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• I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  Maggie Siff

  New York, Grew Up, Rough

  "Sons of Anarchy's Maggie Siff is Over the Don Draper Type" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

  Grace Paley

  Christian, Doors, House

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• When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Skin Color, Role Models, Skins

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• 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.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Crazy, Kids

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• I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

  Danny Burstein

  New York, My Family, Born

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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

  Fun, Father, Sick

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• Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

  Majora Carter

  Destruction, Inevitable, South

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• Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

  Moss Hart

  People, Rich, Poor

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Men, Voice, Rivers

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Years, California

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• I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

  Gerry Cheevers

  Zoos, Hockey, Thinking

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