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New York Quotes
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You hear little about West End Avenue. It is too genteel to have much taste for publicity. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
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. (Quote by - Frances Trollope)
This city here is like an open sewer. It's full of filth and scum. (Quote by - Travis Bickle)
You couldn't prove in court that Hollywood was also born on the Upper West Side, but D.W. Griffith was living on West 100th Street when he started in the film business. (Quote by - Peter Salwen)
New York is not a city to return to in defeat. (Quote by - Moss Hart)
Consider Riverside Drive, where residents' senses were assaulted by the horns and steam whistles of the passing river traffic, the clanging of trains passing below the park, and the stench from cattle cars that were sometimes parked for days on their way to the abbatoirs of the West 60s. (Quote by - Peter Salwen)
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Lovers in New York don't turn against it.....because of taxes or crime or decaying public services. They do it because their happiness here is so dependent on illusions, and their illusions collapse. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
No matter where you sit in New York you feel the vibrations of great times and tall deeds, of queer people and events and undertakings. (Quote by - E.B. White)
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. (Quote by - David Letterman)
No other American city is so intensely American as New York. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. (Quote by - George Dennison Prentice)
I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me. (Quote by - O. Henry)