South Bronx Quotes

#1. Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

Majora Carter

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

Al Pacino

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

Jonathan Kozol

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. 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.

Leonard Susskind

#10. 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.

Jonathan Kozol

#11. I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Swizz Beatz

#12. 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

#13. Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Majora Carter

#14. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#15. I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

Joy Bryant

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

Wesley Snipes

#17. It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

#18. I was going to make him forget, too. He would forget every woman who came before me, every moment that I wasn't a part of, every dream he had that didn't include me. Starting now.

Emma Nichols

#19. I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Dorothy Parker

#20. All of the guns are loaded, because an unloaded gun is no better than a rock as a weapon.

C.A. Henry

#21. Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain

#22. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Michael J. Fox

#23. It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

George Santayana

#24. It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

John Lennon

#25. if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

Umberto Eco

#26. Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.

Erica Alex

#27. Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one's self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#28. I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth

Agnes Smedley

#29. Keeping the commandments ... is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Stephen L. Richards

#30. Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

Woody Harrelson