Firsts Quote by Jay Leno

New York is so dry.

— Lauren Ambrose

The rain probably dampened the spirits of those that decided not to come. But the people who were here didn't know it was raining…

— Chris Messina

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

— Colson Whitehead

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

— Barbara Delinsky

“They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or…

— Madeline L'Engle

“New York, in the late nineteenth century, was also an astonishingly dirty city for a variety of reasons. Only about half of New York’s…

— Stephen Birmingham

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

— Brooks Atkinson

In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal.

— Jonathan Krisel

Manhattan cabs are born old.

— Jean Shepherd

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

— Rita Ora

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed…

— E. L. Doctorow

Some people feel the rain. Other's just get wet.

— Bob Marley