New York City Quotes

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)