#bronx

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

— Wesley Snipes

#bronx #grew #i #like #survive

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

— Wesley Snipes

#bronx #citizen #ever #grew #i

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

#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate

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

— Wesley Snipes

#cats #found #grew #i #lot

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

— Al Pacino

#bronx #i #need #south #south bronx

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. ↗

— Howard Cosell

#burning #gentleman #ladies

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

#because #bronx #brooklyn #day #different

I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyone. ↗

— Bob Hicok

#different-lives #idaho #the-bronx #change

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

#character-comedy #mystery #series #faith

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

#bronx #childhood #college #complete #early