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Quotes About New York

As the country has become more diverse, not just states like California and New York, but throughout the nation, it's no coincidence that we have seen a resurgence of white supremacy and violent extremism. And history's clear: voter suppression is rooted in white supremacy.
~ Alex Padilla
I took the 'Seinfeld' tour of New York once - and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes.
~ Ryan Holiday
I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.
~ Hillary Clinton
'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.
~ Jessica Williams
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
~ George C. Wolfe
Everyone is in a rush in New York, even in restaurants and in cafes. You dont have the serenity. That, I think, is very important in order to read.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.
~ Chris Gibson
I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.
~ Pauline Chalamet
I'm an NBA player with no shoe deal. No endorsement deal. And I play in New York!
~ Enes Kanter
If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
~ Griffin Dunne
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
~ Danny Meyer
The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.
~ Hillary Clinton
The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
~ Desi Arnaz
I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.
~ Chita Rivera
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.
~ Joan Rivers
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
~ Bob Beamon
I'm obsessed with New York. I want to marry it, maybe bear a few children with 42nd Street.
~ Alex Wolff
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
~ Sam Waterston
For me, fashion begins in New York.
~ Carolina Herrera
In 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York law requiring the Klan to file membership lists with state authorities on the grounds that, as the appellate court in the case wrote, "It is a matter of common knowledge that the association or organization"—the Klan—"exercises activities tending to the prejudice and intimidation of sundry classes of our citizens.
~ Jon Meacham
New York didn't set out to charm you. It was like God that way. You had to bring a lot of the enthusiasm yourself.
~ Jonathan Lee
He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.
~ Jonathan Lee
She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek...Don't do that, I said. You just met me. This is New York.
~ Jonathan Lethem
There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
~ Jonathan Lethem