Elites Quote by Alexandra Martin

“New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for…

— David Levithan

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

— David Letterman

“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”

— Pete Hamill

“This kid belonged in a big place like New York with his skinny jeans, designer shirt, fancy sneakers that probably cost more than my…

— Sloane Kennedy

“One of the more unpleasant aspects of living in New York City is how daily proximity to wealth and glamour can instill a desire…

— Kate Bolick

“I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young, penniless artists.…

— Edmund White

“So what do you like about New York so much? That you would venture all the way here and not tell anyone?” “Two boys…

— Tim Federle

“Uppertendom seemed even more problematic to the petite bourgeoisie, newly enlarged and newly self-conscious, which the boom had summoned into being. New York’s middling…

— Mike Wallace

“Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet…

— Edith Wharton

“IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.”

— Colson Whitehead

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham