Quotes About Community

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.

I've always just considered myself a New Yorker, you know.

My family is very New Yorker.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.

I still consider myself a New Yorker before all other nouns.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.

I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

I still live in the same town in Yorkshire where I've always lived.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.