Cities Quote by Joan Didion

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

New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy,…

— Rafael Yglesias

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

— Eric Adams

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to…

— Griffin Dunne

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and…

— Lawrence Block

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now…

— Graydon Carter

Every politician says New York is the greatest city on the globe. But what good is that if no one can afford to live…

— Zohran Mamdani

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is…

— John Steinbeck

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by…

— Fran Lebowitz

Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the…

— Cillian Murphy

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

— Rafael Nadal

New York is all about people and the things people make.

— John Cariani