New york city Quote by Duke Ellington

New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in…

— Duke Ellington

“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 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

“New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of…

— Henry Miller

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

“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

“Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.”

— T.A

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

— Letitia James

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere…

— Anna Quindlen

“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles