Friendship Quote by Rosemary Daniell

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type…

— Alex Wolff

“The South is different from anywhere else on earth. Every time I returned, it seemed it was the beginning of my greatest story, like…

— Victoria Benton Frank

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South

— Josh Lucas

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because…

— Terri Windling

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

— Parker Posey

There's always going to be something about coming back to New York because I'm from New York. It takes me back to my childhood.

— Billy Donovan

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

— Pete Hamill

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal…

— Allison Tolman

“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.”

— Cat Agonis

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

— Matana Roberts

I graduated high school early, and I moved to New York before I even knew I was going to college or anything.

— Scott Evans

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who…

— Dani Shapiro