New York Quotes - Page 2

• Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, War, Years

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.

  David Frost

  Ideas, Matter, Theory

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

  Andre Dubus

  Daughter, Morning, San Francisco

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.

  Diego Boneta

  Art, Cities, Paris

  The Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. October 6, 2015.

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• I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

  Nora Ephron

  Heart, Light, Rushing

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 22, 2014

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• Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

  John F. Kennedy

  Cities, Verbs, Nouns

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• There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Travel, Sleep, Air

  Simone de Beauvoir (2000). “America Day by Day”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Cities, Detective Work

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

  Mark Twain

  Boston, Philadelphia, America

  "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" (1895) See Disraeli 10

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• When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

  Ryan Adams

  Want, Walks, Streets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Wake Up, Muscles

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, Rain, Night

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• When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

  Jimmy Breslin

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• New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

  Tom Waits

  Force, Endless, Situation

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Twilight, Mean

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Humorous, Car, Essentials

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

  Walt Whitman

  Pride, Men, Hands

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• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  Vernon Duke

  Autumn, Doe, Inviting

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• ...Skyscraper National Park

  Kurt Vonnegut

  National Parks, Parks, Skyscraper

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.8, Penguin

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  Black And White, Cities, Tunes

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

  John Updike

  Believe, People, New York City

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 31, 2013

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, Stress, Sunset

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• New York is the only real city-city.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Cities, Old New York

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

  James Cameron

  Short Love, Travel, New Day

  James Cameron (1966). “Witness”

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• In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Girl, Air, Sky

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.103, Booklassic

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