York Quotes · Page 84

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

— Charlie Viracola

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

— Naveen Andrews

I love Baltimore, I miss the people, but I think L.A. is way more chill.

— JPEGMAFIA

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

— Karen Russell

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

— Hillary Clinton

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

— Henry James

Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here - family, friends - but I'm very happy in England, with the…

— Juan Mata

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did…

— Allison Tolman

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

— Michael Wilbon

I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't…

— Jill Davis

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

— Fred Ward

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I…

— Joey Bishop

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was…

— Isaac Mizrahi

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

— Djuna Barnes

When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings.…

— Benny Goodman

New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes…

— Henry Miller

When I go home to Iowa, people assume I live in this very big anonymous place where no one knows each other…

— Peter Hedges

“Depending on your point of view, Jersey City was the rose, or possibly the thorn, of the Garden State. It is so…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have…

— James Gray

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to…

— Gary Sinise

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also…

— Bob Balaban

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved…

— Jason Kilar

I was born and raised in L.A. I'm a L.A. girl. I love the quietness of L.A. and that you can just…

— Jennifer Meyer

I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.

— Ryan Gosling

Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house…

— Kate Ashfield

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

— Cassandra Clare

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to…

— David Edelstein

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people…

— Roland Orzabal

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us…

— Svetlana Alexievich

You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like…

— Michael Connelly

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

— Nancy Pickard

I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

— Waris Ahluwalia

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of…

— Aerin Lauder

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

— Anita Diament

In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up.

— Douglas Brunt

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

— Gregory Corso

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in…

— Mustard

I grew up on the West Coast during the '80s. But I wasn't a 'valley girl,' since I grew up in Norwalk,…

— Tiffany Darwish

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

— Michael Bloomberg

As a player, you have to see what's out there. But, at the end of the day, I knew Atlanta was my…

— Paul Millsap