(15 quotes found)
“I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.”
Al Pacino
“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
“Our thought is that it came in from Westchester County and then came south through the Bronx before getting to the park.”
Carli Smith
“We lived in the Bronx, didn't have a lot of dough and it was quiet until I went away to go to school. Cut the bonds and went crazy. Studied painting and design for three years at Carnegie Mellon and transferred to the drama department and decided that I WAS Orson Welles. I'd actually go around in a cape and do things like that.”
George A. Romero
“For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.”
Curtis Sliwa
“Officers from the 44th Precinct in the High Bridge section of the Bronx arrested two men in a blue van who were trying to make off with the corner of 161st Street and Jerome Avenue.”
William R. Greer
“It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.”
Fat Joe
“We have seen increased mosquito activity in parts of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island,”
Thomas Frieden
“To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.”
Chuck Granby
“[Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, appeared at several black churches yesterday morning and issued a statement calling the Bush administration's response] shocking, inadequate and indefensible. ... we have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.”
Gifford Miller
