Top 204 Bronx Quotes & Sayings

I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx.

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

I particularly love where I work because I was born, raised, and still live in the Bronx. I work in a Bronx location, so it's very fulfilling to me to be working in my home borough, and working with kids that are a lot like me and who can see themselves in me. My own teaching philosophy is to expose them to books that they might not otherwise read, particularly authors of color, authors whose stories are based in New York City.

I come from the Bronx, so I was exposed to every type of music you can think of.

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

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

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

My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.

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

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

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

I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

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

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

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

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

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

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

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 was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

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.

Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

People's hustle in the Bronx is real.

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.

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

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

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

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

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

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

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

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

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.

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.

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.

Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.

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 a Bronx girl so I definitely have my little wild factors.

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

I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.

I grew up in the Bronx.

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.

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

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

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

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

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.

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

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

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.