Bronx Quotes

You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to river you comb the town/ For a place to lay your family down. - Ogden Nash

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies. - Regis Philbin

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. - Daniel Libeskind

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

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

What did you have to do not to be allowed to serve under Bronx Borough President Ferrer? ... It's the same old song. - Bill Cunningham

We think this is truly a body blow, not only to the (Genovese family) membership, but the leadership of the Bronx component of this operation. - Mark Mershon

We think it will be the next cool thing. We're connecting with the best places dominoes is played, so naturally we're going to start in uptown Manhattan and the Bronx, the places where it really happens. - Lino Garcia

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

We have seen increased mosquito activity in parts of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. - Thomas Frieden