New York Quotes

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

The first thing that strikes a stranger in the Big Apple is a taxicab.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

New York is a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear.

Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don’t need your name and address.

I hate New York every day except Marathon Sunday. The kids slapping hands with you, saying ‘Way to go, honky.’ I love that!

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it.

The Americans are justly very proud of it, and its residents passionately attached to it – a young New Yorker, who had been in Europe for more than a year, was in the same sleigh with me. ‘There goes the old city!’ said he in his enthusiasm, as we entered Broadway; ‘I could almost jump […]

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.