Dreams Quote by Adam Gopnik

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here,…

— Sari Botton

“I had come to New York when I was seventeen because—and maybe I was not fully conscious of this then—the city had seemed like…

— Rayhane Sanders

“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail…

— David Carr

“I began to consider, upon the thought of "permanently" relocating, everything New York had made me. When I arrived, I was like a half-carved…

— Jacob Tomsky

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because…

— Terri Windling

“What a thing it is to live in New York City. To move here and not know a soul. A clean slate, a chance…

— John Kenney

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

We're just people from everywhere, looking for identity. New York, with the history of freedom, and dreams, and realized dreams, people come to this…

— Pawel Althamer

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the…

— Julia Fox

“What makes this city different is that nobody expects to be in one place for ten minutes. Everybody moves all the time. Seven nameless…

— Don DeLillo

One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

— Miuccia Prada

My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have…

— Anne Hathaway