New York Quotes
September 8, 2010
No place has delicatessen like New York.
- Judy Blume
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
- Lewis Grizzard
Only New York could have produced such a welcome. It beat a snowstorm all to pieces.
- Charles Lindbergh
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?
- Walt Whitman
Situated on an island, which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice, from the sea, and like the fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.
- Frances Trollope
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.
- Charles A. Beard
The Bronx? No Thonx!
- Ogden Nash
