New york city Quotes

“Harlem sleeps late.”

— Jacob M. Appel

“The Bronx? No Thonx!”

— Ogden Nash

I love New York City.

— Li Na

New York City is my playground.

— Bethenny Frankel

“Enjoy your cinnafucks!”

— Pat Shand

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

— Anonymous

“Chance is life's only certainty.”

— Mickey Wyte

I really liked New York City.

— Katie Cassidy

I've been in New York City now for 22 years.

— Julie Gold

“No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.”

— Lisa Ko

My heart's in New York City. But you can't live that pace forever.

— John Waite

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

— Caroline Shaw

“New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.”

— Ralph Ellison

“You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.”

— Juliet C. Obodo

“LEGACY IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LIVING!”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

— Dorothy Parker

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

— Paul Goldberger

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“Believe me, once you lose a kid in a New York City park, atheist or not, you start talking to God right…

— Jim Gaffigan

This is the Mecca of basketball, New York City. You can't hope to play well at a better place than this.

— Chris Paul

“I love you because Five floor walk up 1 to the 2 to the E Three avenues”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York…

— Moby

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

— Philip Morrison

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for…

— Madeline Brewer

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come…

— Dorothy Parker

“I tumbled about New York City never really forming friendships for fear they’d just disappoint me further than I already was. I…

— Fisher Amelie

We've been scorned, exposed, I mean, I don't even know what word to use. But we're persona non grata in the gay…

— George Santos

I will use every form of transit, and I want to make sure that they are all affordable in New York City,…

— Zohran Mamdani

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us…

— John Guare

I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car,…

— Donald Faison

My relationship with PS 347 goes way back. I was the teacher there and I moved from California to New York City.…

— Lauren Ridloff

I miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique…

— Lauv

Yes, I do consider the city I will be in when I decide which dress to wear. I get a little edgier…

— Tinsley Mortimer

“When tenements began appearing in New York City in the mid-1800s, rent in the worst slums was 30 percent higher than in…

— Matthew Desmond

“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first…

— Colson Whitehead

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call…

— Junot Diaz

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came…

— Miriam Makeba

I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is…

— Mary Oliver

“The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The…

— Lexis De Rothschild