Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky. — Ace Frehley
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. — Cy Coleman
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
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis
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! — Jennifer Lopez
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo. — Big L
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. — Peter Bart
On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark — Big L
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap.
From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat. — Big Pun
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. — Derek Jeter
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. — Neil Diamond
Short Bronx Quotes
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' — Wesley Snipes
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever. — Chazz Palminteri
My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.' — Chazz Palminteri
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent — Robert De Niro
The choices that you make will shape your life forever. — Francis Capra
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter
Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo. — Gerry Cheevers
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. — Wesley Snipes
I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music. — Abel Ferrara
As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx. — Kool Moe Dee
Bronx Image Quotes
South Bronx Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff. — Swizz Beatz
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places. — Swizz Beatz
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
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. — Majora Carter
I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty. — Joy Bryant
Car Insurance Quotes
Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. — Shiv Khera
We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for. — Peter DeGraaf
Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee. — Elizabeth Warren
I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them. — Ice Cube
I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why...am I gonna get into an extra accident? — Robert Schimmel
When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?' — Demetri Martin
The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure. — Michael Caine
The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day. — Stephen Jackson
I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that. — Todd Akin
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
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
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around. — Rakim
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
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that. — Jay-Z
It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge. — Fat Joe
I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams. — Jennifer Lopez
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. — Linda Kaplan Thaler
Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America. — Lewis Schiff
I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life. — Al Pacino
I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me." — Dion DiMucci
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
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