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

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) — Tom Callahan

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

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there. — Coeur De Pirate

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles. — Gena Showalter

The long-dead curator from the Bronx Zoo now had me in his unwavering grip. Close by, the bushmaster too lay in wait. — Dan Eatherley

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

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

People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'. — Fab Five Freddy

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

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. — Cara Buono

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

I'm sorry, I can't see that you truly love me — Pierce The Veil

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

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind

Threw a fence up and called it the Bronx Zoo. — Richard Price

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do. — Prince Royce

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

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

The Bronx? No Thonx! — Ogden Nash

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

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. — Jerome Charyn

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 called the Ops Room, hoping to get Luc, and possibly Ethan, on the phone. "Jimmy's House of Vampires," Luc answered, in a really poor Bronx accent. — Chloe Neill

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

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

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

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

The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car's radio. The Temptations towed me to tears. — Billy O'Connor

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

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!' — Cara Buono

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

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

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

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about. — Richard Fliegel

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

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

Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms. — Suzanne Palmieri

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

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

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. — Jonathan Kozol

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx. — Ray Santiago

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me. — Amy Heckerling

So darlin' close your eyes, 'cause you're about to miss everything — Pierce The Veil

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

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

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. — S.J. Rozan

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. — Jennifer Lopez

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell

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

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. — Chris Hayes

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

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. — Art Donovan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was a chorus! A rain of garbage! A Rigoletto from the sewer, from the rancid gullet of the Bronx! — Tom Wolfe

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx. — Danny Aiello