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Quotes About Bronx

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
~ A Boogie wit da Hoodie
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
~ Jerry Saltz
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
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I grew up in the Bronx.
~ Chris Hayes
The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.
~ Amy Heckerling
She's Jenny from the block! I love her music and her movies. And she goes back to where she grew up in the Bronx and gives back to the community.
~ Tecia Torres
All my Latino side is from the Bronx.
~ Jimmy Smits
I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.
~ Kemba Walker
I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.
~ Sunny Hostin
Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.
~ Erica Mena
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
I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and how it is growing up in The Bronx.
~ Hennessy Carolina
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
~ Wesley Snipes
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
~ Cy Coleman
In February of 1921, the Yankees purchased 10 acres of property from the estate of William Waldorf Astoria at 161st St and River Ave in the west Bronx, directly across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. Yankees owner Rupert and Tillinghast Huston announced the construction of baseball's first triple-decked structure. With a capacity of over 70,000, it would also be the first structure to be called a "stadium.
~ David Fischer
Fans will also notice another link to the Bronx - the field's dimensions are an exact replica of Yankee Stadium, measuring 318 feet down the left-field line, 408 feet to center field, and 314 feet down the right field line.
~ David Fischer
Tom Wolfe, of all people, was the first person who ever told me about rap music. He liked to go to Harlem and the Bronx to watch the crews battle it out, and he was writing rap lyrics of his own.
~ Jann S. Wenner
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
~ Fat Joe
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
A date was soon set for the wedding. He and Marie were married on Saturday, August 31, 1940, at the Church of Our Lady of Refuge on East 196th Street in the Bronx. The nuptial mass was performed by the Reverend Jeremiah F. Nemecek, a Fordham football fan who idolized the Seven Blocks of Granite
~ David Maraniss
She was a freaking princess. And he was a poor Vamp from the Bronx. If he laid a finger on her, she'd probably bite it off. Hell, she'd chew all ten of his digits down to mere stubs, and then her father would sic a pack of werewolves on him to rip apart the rest of this body.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
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
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