I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins,… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I've been living in New York City almost seven years, and my mentality has changed a lot. Just from being in New… — Takeru Kobayashi Copy Share Image
I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Free is not how many of our citizens feel—with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“west. He liked the mild climate, the Sierras making it something like Colorado with a seashore. It took him several years to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
For native New Yorkers and pilgrims alike, there have been few things more heartbreaking about the protracted aftermath of Sept. 11 than… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“What is the first thing young people ask about in job interviews today: What are the health benefits? When I asked a… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under. — Letitia James Copy Share Image
You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“Yes, but don’t you find the endorsements intriguing?” Emma said. “Why would a bunch of big-shot New Yorkers support her? She was… — Mike Lawson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
“New Yorkers think they’ve seen it all, heard it all, and know it all. But I learned from watching The Hour of… — Jo Maeder Copy Share Image
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
“New York endures despite its complexity because of its people. New York endures because New Yorkers have always been people who met… — Historica Press Copy Share Image
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I've got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It's kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It's… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just… — David Frost Copy Share Image
You may have heard me say that I am going to create a safe, fair, affordable city for all New Yorkers. But… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
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