York Quotes · Page 129

My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.

— Ginger Zee

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

— Penelope Cruz

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize…

— Lisa Randall

If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big…

— Shane Smith

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

— Lee Child

Yes - it's a lot of people, it's craziness, but I really like to walk around and just feel the atmosphere of…

— Aryna Sabalenka

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its…

— Jose Serrano

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to…

— Robert De Niro

There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that…

— Harold C. Schonberg

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach…

— Tom Stoppard

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I…

— Howard Stringer

I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife,…

— Edward Rutherfurd

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going…

— Debbie Harry

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly…

— Patton Oswalt

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top.…

— Ang Lee

New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the senses, it's the…

— Douglas Brunt

I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save…

— Patrick Beverley

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little…

— Bruce Conner

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

— Judy Holliday

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

— Jordana Brewster

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was…

— Mark Twain

I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and…

— Thom Browne

“How many words are spoken in New York every day, just in Manhattan alone, say? And how many are really heard? Seventeen,…

— Richard Kramer

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town…

— Faith Popcorn

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think…

— Sara Gilbert

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a…

— Bonnie Raitt

There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at…

— Madonna Ciccone

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

— George Shearing

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of…

— Julian Casablancas

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet,…

— Trent Reznor

I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family's there. But I think New York is just kind of…

— Adam Scott

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all…

— John Layfield

I love Atlanta. I feel really at home in Atlanta. We spent a lot of time there. But Athens is like home…

— Kate Pierson

For New York, for Philly, road trips to Atlantic City in rented cars. One month unlimited MetroCards.

— Jean Grae

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

— Edward Enninful

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

— Mark McKinnon

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

— Zack Greinke

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

— Michael Douglas

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

— Wesley Morris