Quotes About New York City

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

I'd been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That's what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn't say much, I listened.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more distinguished for valor and perseverance" than any other American, including Washington, wondered why the enemy was wasting his "military talents" and had permitted him "thus to fall into the unmerciful fangs of the executive council of Pennsylvania."1

Second, he is credited with almost single-handedly devising the financial rescue package that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1975, standing tall against President Gerald Ford and his incendiary refusal to help.

New York City hotels have free condoms in the rooms. All these years I've been using the free shower cap.

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.