Quotes About Community

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11, and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. I think millions of people were forever changed.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

We all grew up in Bronxville, I went to Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart - in the old location on Convent Avenue - and I've lived here since 1962. I couldn't feel more like a New Yorker.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.