Gratitude Quote by Pete Hamill

“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

— Pete Hamill

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in…

— Pete Hamill

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on…

— Pete Hamill

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

— Pete Hamill

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

— Pete Hamill

“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter…

— Pete Hamill

There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set…

— Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

— Pete Hamill

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

— Pete Hamill

“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of…

— Pete Hamill