Science Quote by Michele Campbell

“These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but…

— Elizabeth Winder

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life…

— Malcolm Cowley

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes…

— Louis Kronenberger

“I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”

— Pete Hamill

“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 is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature,…

— Ernest Gruening

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove…

— Cate Marvin

“There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction…

— Jonathan Franzen

“When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal,…

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to…

— Candace Bushnell

“And you can fool yourself if you’re raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn’t true.…

— Victor LaValle

I've got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It's kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It's awesome and…

— Miriam Shor