#bronx

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

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

— Cy Coleman

#four #i #mother #old #owned

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

— David Wilkerson

#began #bronx #brooklyn #gangs #happen

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

#bronx #brought #came #candy #candy store

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

— Danny Aiello

#beautiful girl #bronx #fell #girl #i

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

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

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

— Tony Curtis

#bronx #i #joined #navy #neighborhood