New York City Quotes

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

New York is a sucked orange.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

New York City is my playground.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

I had a good friend in New York City.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.