Quotes About New York City

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

Here's an example that might prove valuable to you: a friend of mine recently bought a New York City bond where he's getting a 4% return tax free—which, for someone in a high tax bracket, is the equivalent of an approximately 7% return in a taxable bond!

His funeral procession, said to have been the largest in New York City's history, included more than one hundred thousand participants. Most were devoted readers.

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New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

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.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live there's a different energy about living in the city.

Nations are frequently referred to, particularly by other countries, by the name of their capital city, or a leading prominent city. New York, was one of two primary targets for Al Qaeda on September 11, 2001, in addition to our nation's Capitol. Both Washington, D.C. and New York City are quintessential targets for those who seek America's destruction. America is known worldwide, and referred to by the people of the world, by its major cities.

The New York City Department of Public Health.recently reported that a startling 41% of pregnancies in the City ended in abortion. The national abortion rate is 24% of all conceived babies who die in utero.

Long shadows cast by skyscrapers create another problem. The longest shadow cast by a building is measured at 3 P.M. on the winter solstice, December 21.2 At that time, the shadow is 4.4 times the height of the building on the latitude of New York City. The shadow cast by a building as high as the 1,250-foot-high Empire State Building is longer than a mile.

Astor was simply following an old Astor tradition, one that his father, John Jacob Astor, had begun. The Astors seldom bought property that had already been developed. Believing that the population of New York City would grow, and the only way it could grow was northward up Manhattan Island, the Astors liked to buy relatively inexpensive property on the edge of development and let the burgeoning population catch up with

It became a designated New York City landmark in 1981, the year of the building's golden jubilee; it was listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1982; and, in 1986, the National Parks Service recognized it as a National Historic Landmark.

Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, said the following to the New York City School Teachers Association in 1909: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.

People are realizing that telecommuting doesn't mean you have to be in New York City five days a week. It means that if you have to stay home for a period of time, having a nice little backyard is not a bad way to do it.

I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.

Receiving a reputable pro-Israel award isn't a bad idea for a Democrat or a Republican in a New York City congressional district.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

In 1953, the idea of a single female police recruit to the New York City Police Department, let alone a handful, was big news.