Here is TheDailyNewYorker’s list of NYC Quotes.
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.— Fran Lebowitz, Rand Lindsly’s Quotations.
New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring, it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.— Paul Goldberger
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.— John Updike
The city of right angles and tough, damaged people.— Pete Hamill
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years— Thomas Wolfe
It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.— O. Henry
This is New York and there’s no law against being annoying— William Kunstler
When you leave New York, you ain’t goin’ nowhere
New York is to the nation what the white spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!— E.B. White
It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.— E.B. White, Here is New York
This is the town that never sleeps. That’s why we don’t live in Duluth. That plus I don’t know where Duluth is. Lucky me.— Woody Allen, Manhattan Murder Mystery
The renowned and ancient city of Gotham.— Washington Irving, Salmagundi
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.— Irving Berlin
If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.— Myrna Loy
One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.— Frank O’Hara
No matter where you go in the world, you never really leave New York, and it never really leaves you.— Billy Joel
We’re not consumers. Amen, we’re citizens and this is not a corporation. This is not a corporation, this is New York City!— Rev. Billy, Running for Mayor of NYC 2009
In 1626, the Dutch purchased Manhattan Island from the Lenape Native Americans for 60 guilders (about $1000).
in 1895 Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.— Martha Graham
When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.— Weegee
Mighty Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides.— Walt Whitman
We watched the world go home that night— Sara Teasdale
In a flood through Union Square…
New Yorkers are nice about giving directions; in fact, they seem proud of knowing where they are themesleves.— Katherine Bush
New York is the greatest place where the lights meet the road.— G. N. Miller
Abandon your homes- We must build a bridge.— Robert Moses
The Empire State Building is the lighthouse of Manhattan— Robert A. M. Stern
O West Side that I am- I dip my toes in the hot sun-head wreathed with the trees of Central Park.— D. H. Melhem
Tremulously I stand in the subways, absorbed into the terrible reverberations of exploding energy.— Helen Keller
But, Ah! Manhattan’s sights and sounds, her smells, Her crowds, her throbbing force…— James Weldon Johnson
What can ever be more stately and admirable to me than masthemm’d Manhattan?— Walt Whitman
As usual in New York, everything is torn down before you have time to care for it.— James Merrill
From the ruins [of the old Waldorf Astoria], lonely and inexplicable as the shpinx, rose the Empire State Building— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I could take the Harlem night and wrap it around you, take the neon lights and make you a crown.— Langston Hughes
There is nothing more beautiful than New York City in the snow.— Mayor Rudy Giuliani
It was one of those late May evenings when New York seems to beth hug you and summon you on towards some reward to be found in that city and nowhere else.— Howell Raines
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.— Robert Moses
I’d rather be a lamppost in New York than the mayor of Chicago.— NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker
New York is still here. We’ve suffered terrible losses and we will grieve for them, but we will be here, tomorrow and forever.— Mayor Rudy Giuliani
New York City- the place with the most gorgeous women and the best food in the world.— Bob Dylan
The city’s got the right name- New York. Nothing ever gets old around here.— Ralph Stephenson
If I live in New York, it is because I choose to live here. It is the city of total intensity, the city of the moment.— Diana Vreeland
I love New York because within its borders you can travel the world.— Dennis Gonzalez
This city is the center of the universe.— Mayor Robert F. Wagner
Other cities consume culture, New York creates it.— Paul Goldberger
Manhattan… How fit a name for America’s great democratic island city!— Walt Whitman
I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.— Joe Dimaggio
New York is where the future comesl to audition.— Mayor Ed Koch
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.— F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.— E. B. White
The present in New York is so powerful that the post is lost.— John Jay Chapman
The City. See, that’s what we call it. The rest of the world calls it the Apple… We call it the City and let it go at that.— Lawrence Block
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City itself is a detective story.— Agatha Christie
In New York you can have anything you want, and even in the old days you could, too, so that hasn’t changed.— Brooke Astor
The city makes you want more. I travel the world, but find my real inspiration comes from New York.— James Kieran Pine
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.— Gyogy Ligeti
Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.— John Steinbeck
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,— Emma Lazarus
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
