Best New Yorkers Quotations
113 New Yorkers quotes by 96 unique authors
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Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
— Dorothy Parker
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
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But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the…
— Kate Jacobs
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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a…
— Tina Fey
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New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
— Jeannette Walls
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True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not…
— Jimmy Breslin
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[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the…
— Jack London
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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
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I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
— Elaine Stritch
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The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a…
— Raymond Kelly
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New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.
— Raymond Kelly
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I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have…
— Nouriel Roubini
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On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to…
— Bobby Ghosh
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Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with…
— Christine Quinn
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As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a…
— Bill de Blasio
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I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and…
— Christine Quinn
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The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn…
— Sal Albanese
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people…
— Sal Albanese
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My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
— Unknown Author
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I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.
— Henrik Lundqvist
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Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
— Nydia Velazquez
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My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what…
— Gad Elmaleh
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Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based…
— David Rakoff
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Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result…
— Nick Turse
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