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Bronx Quotes

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life Picture Quote #1

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx Picture Quote #1

I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx Picture Quote #1

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx Picture Quote #1

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, ‘Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they’ll get you,’ and I grew up with this feeling of, ‘Society is over there and they’re dangerous and not safe.’ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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’ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played Picture Quote #1

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well Picture Quote #1

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it’s the greatest country in the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I’m from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I’ll keep it live in the house Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I loved England’s gentility and its civility. I’m from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it’s spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life (Bronx Quotes) I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx (Bronx Quotes) I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx (Bronx Quotes) When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx (Bronx Quotes) I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, ‘Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they’ll get you,’ and I grew up with this feeling of, ‘Society is over there and they’re dangerous and not safe.’ (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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’. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. (Bronx Quotes) I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well. (Bronx Quotes) I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it’s the greatest country in the world. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) I’m from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I’ll keep it live in the house. (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) I loved England’s gentility and its civility. I’m from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it’s spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers. (Bronx Quotes) 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. (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes) 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 (Bronx Quotes)