Cities Quote by Amor Towles

“On the morning of Friday, July first, I had a low-paying job at a waning publisher and a dwindling circle of semi-acquaintances. On Friday,…

— Amor Towles

New York as a city, it's congested.

— GloRilla

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

— Anonymous

I think the air in New York is death.

— Richard Bonynge

Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.

— Varun Sharma

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't…

— Donald Trump, Jr

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

— Joey Chestnut

In a New York minute, Everything can change.

— French Montana

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all…

— Fritz Leiber

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from…

— Diane Ackerman

I find New York very frightening, I must say.

— Rita Tushingham

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

— Richard M. Nixon