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Quotes About New York City

intelligent white men and women of New York City who are interested in the purity and preservation of their race should not permit the challenge of Crookmanism to go unanswered, even though these black scoundrels may be within the law.
~ George S. Schuyler
I settled down to long sweet sleeps, day-long meditations in the house, writing, and long walks around beloved old Manhattan a half hour subway ride away. I roamed the streets, the bridges, Times Square, cafeterias, the waterfront, I looked up all my poet beatnik friends and roamed with them, I had love affairs with girls in the Village, I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City.
~ Jack Kerouac
I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City.
~ Jack Kerouac
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
~ David Cassidy
The moment I moved to New York City to study fashion, I met and became friends with people not only involved in fashion but in all the arts. It's quite fluid with so many types of artists, designers, and musicians who know each other through collaborations or friends of friends.
~ Narciso Rodriguez
I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
~ Prince Royce
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.
~ Michael Pollan
New York City in particular is the economic engine of not just our state, but arguably the nation. If that engine stalls, this entire country could get dragged into the same downward spiral.
~ Eric Adams
Nelson Richard DeMille was born in New York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron and Antonia (Panzera) DeMille, then moved with his parents to Long Island.
~ Nelson DeMille
'When Harry Met Sally'... is probably my favourite movie.
~ Julia Garner
New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.
~ Peter Hedges
When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
~ Kellie Martin
longitudinal study of people over age 75, conducted over a period of 21 years by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at whether activities from playing cards to swimming to doing housework affected cognitive ability. Almost none of the physical activities had any effect on dementia rates except for one: partner dancing, which lowered the risk by 76 percent. No other activity came anywhere near being as effective at protecting people from cognitive decline!3
~ Christiane Northrup
New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.
~ Kurt Wenzel
The Harriet Tubman Home became the only charity outside New York City dedicated to the shelter and care of African Americans in the state. The main brick building, John Brown Hall, also known as the John Brown Infirmary
~ Catherine Clinton
The venerable Walt Disney commercial empire had established around the turn of the century one of the largest "theme parks" in the country, on a bulldozed, reclaimed piece of New York City that had once been a slum.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
Those two really tall buildings are the World Trade Center — the Twin Towers.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
per il concerto degli U2 del giorno dopo, al Madison Square Garden.
~ Giorgio Faletti
The name Joe Shapiro is not uncommon in New York City.
~ Mary L. Trump
I moved to New York City in 1997 as an undergraduate transfer student at NYU.
~ Ryan Fleck
When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
~ Lana Del Rey
I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
~ Spalding Gray
I love playing at Madison Square Garden.
~ RJ Barrett
That was the top of the line for me. New York City... Madison Square Garden. Oh my Lord! I loved it so much, brudda.
~ Jimmy Snuka