Babylon Quote by Lucius Beebe

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

— Anonymous

“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is…

— Christopher Morley

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just…

— Barbara Walters

“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

“New York. The greatest concentration of human potential in the history of the world. So much so that they had to start piling the…

— Adam Sternbergh

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

— Joseph O'Neill

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

— Italo Calvino

“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

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting…

— Robert Benton

New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so…

— Victoria Justice

“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as…

— Saul Bellow