New York Quotes

September 8, 2010


Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
- O. Henry


When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.
- David Frost


When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.
- Jane Fonda


Where else but in an American democracy could a boy of the lower East Side, born in London to parents fleeting Russian discrimination, grow up to be mayor of a pan-ethnic city?
- Abraham Beame


Why, if you are not in New York you are camping out.
- Thomas W. Dewing


Yet despite all the problems, New Yorkers fell in love with the soaring structure and almost overnight, the Empire State Building became the most romantic and widely recognizable symbol of the city.
- Ric Burns and James Sanders


You absorb the intellectual life, the culture. Without even consciously learning from it, you are stimulated by it. It is almost a passive thing that happens. You cannot stop it.
- Stephen Tim


You're in New York City now, buddy-wipe that silly grin off your face.
- Baloo

New York Quotes